On Friday, the Head of State will be traveling in Dunkirk. Not to support the employees of the Valdunes factory, threatened with closure, as the RN and LFI are doing this week, but to talk about reindustrialization and investments.
It is accompanied by five ministers that Emmanuel Macron will spend part of the afternoon in Dunkirk: Bruno le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Energy Transition, Roland Lescure, Minister for Industry and Olivier Becht, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade. Beautiful people to present the “strategy to accelerate our reindustrialization upstream of the Choose France summit”, advances the Elysée.
New investments announced
Reindustrialization and decarbonization, the example chosen to highlight is that of the Aluminum Dunkerque factory, which the president will visit behind closed doors from 3 p.m. But the Elysée recalls the “efficient industrial ecosystem” of the sector, comprising 460 companies which concentrate 22% of local employment.
After an exchange with the employees of the Aluminum Dunkirk site, Emmanuel Macron will go to the headquarters of the urban community of Dunkirk, around 5:30 p.m., in particular to “formalize new investments for the Dunkirk basin”, explains the Elysée. These include the establishment, unveiled on Wednesday, of a manufacturing plant for batteries for electric vehicles of the Taiwanese group Prologium. An investment of more than 5 billion euros by 2030.