Emmanuel Macron: “We are experiencing the end of abundance”

French President Emmanuel Macron opened this Wednesday the first meeting of the Council of Ministers after the summer holidays with a serious tone in the face of the economic, energy and social problems facing the country, and warned that the “end of abundance” had arrived.

“I think we are witnessing a great convulsion, a radical change. Basically, what we are experiencing is the end of abundance, free liquidity,” Macron said, breaking his usual optimism and the “by all means” motto he had. flew during pandemicwhen the state came to the aid of businessmen and citizens through public spending.

Per Macronshortage of certain raw materials or water on the table, and measures must be taken in this regard.

“This is also the end of the evidence. Democracy, human rights. If anyone thought this was the fate of the international order, recent years have blown up some of the evidence,” he said, referring to the rise of illiberal or authoritarian regimes.

The French leader considered that the war in Ukraine brought Europe “the end of carelessness.”

pandemic and war

Per pandemic and war in Ukrainewith the shadow of inflation weighing on the global economy and the risk of a recession in Europethe high temperatures that hit France this summer and the drought have raised concerns among many citizens and the government itself.

“Faced with such problems,” said Macron- We have no right to wait, to manage on the fly. We must defend our country with ambition, preserve what is needed and protect those who need it.”

At the end of the Council of Ministers meeting, Executive Representative Olivier Veran detailed some of the issues discussed at the meeting, where sobriety seems to be the motto, although the government does not want to impose restrictions, but rather calls for individual responsibility. .

Asked about regulating private flights, with a petition circulating on social media to ban them and the government admitting it plans to restrict them, Veran was vague but clarified that “everyone will have to make an effort.”

“More than an effort, I would say we should all pay attention,” he said. He noted that it was the summer “after climate change, full of awareness even among the most skeptical.”

EFE