“Uber Files”: Emmanuel Macron takes part in the development of Uber in France

Emmanuel Macron wanted to go back to his basics. Once again, become the apostle of a triumphant economy that, sooner or later, will succeed in overcoming mass unemployment and returning the lost momentum of Pompidou-style France to the land. On Tuesday, July 12, from the commune of Croles (Isère), bordering Grenoble, all the conditions were met for the president to regain control of his favorite subject, which has been hidden for too long by the health crisis and the war in Ukraine.

Keeping the Uber Files case away from him – revelations from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, including the world It is part of – renewing his personal involvement when he was economy minister to promote the establishment of a socially less expensive American company in France; removing from him the concern of the Parliament, where he has only a relative majority; Forgetting the exams ultraliberalism” The head of state, relentlessly pitted against him by the left, wanted to restore the tone of a preacher of optimism. “I came here to celebrate the good news”He explained from the website of semiconductor company STMicroelectronics.

On a platform planted in the company’s dry gardens, between the Massif Beledon and Massif Chartreuse, the head of state, seemingly impervious to the scorching heat, returned to the state’s massive €5.7 billion investment. American company Global Foundries for the construction of a “mega factory” on the site. Announced a day earlier in Versailles as part of the “Choose France” trade show aimed at boosting the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors, the project should allow France to strengthen its position in the semiconductor sector used in cars, phones and medical equipment. equipment, created more than a thousand jobs.

Confident and confident

With investments in research and innovation, there will also be improvements in technology to reduce the size of chips and drastically reduce their power consumption. What was decided today is at the heart of the challenges that are ours, about industrial sovereignty and re-industrialisation, energy and the digital transition.The president was delighted.

In the audience, the environmentalist mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolet, shakes his head. Willing to put aside for a moment his differences with the head of state, an elected official whose party is a member of the new Popular Environmental and Social Union (Nupes), led by Jean-Luc Melenchon. “happy”.