“Uber Files”: in the name of employment, Emmanuel Macron “fully assumes”

Published on: 07/12/2022 – 20:31 Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday “to fully assume” having received the leaders of Uber when he was Minister of Economy and Finance, considering himself “super proud” of to have contributed to the creation of jobs in France. Emmanuel Macron “assumes fully”, even if it means once again provoking strong reactions: the Head of State sharply replied, on Tuesday July 12, to criticism of his privileged exchanges in the past with Uber, insisting on “the thousands of ‘jobs’ created. “I am extremely proud (…), it is very difficult to create jobs without companies or entrepreneurs”, added the Head of State. “I would do it again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,” he insisted after visiting the site of the STMicroelectronics company near Grenoble. 🔴 Emmanuel #Macron on #Uber: “I fully accept it, I have seen foreign business leaders and I am proud of it if they have created jobs in France (…) and I would do it again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow” #UberFiles pic.twitter.com/5QKd6XjFh7— Guillaume Daret (@GuillaumeDaret) July 12, 2022 “We are introducing a kind of atmosphere which would consist in saying that seeing business leaders, in particular foreign ones, would be bad . But I fully assume it, and looking at you!”, replied the president. “As one of my predecessors would say, it touches me one without moving the other,” he added, in reference to a sentence attributed to Jacques Chirac. “‘Hyper proud’ to trample on labor law, to encourage deregulation and to support a firm champion of tax evasion: the president persists and signs”, tweeted the communist Fabien Roussel after the presidential remarks. is not Chirac who wants … Good words are not always enough to hide bad manners”, reacted Boris Vallaud, leader of the Socialist deputies. As part of the “Uber Files”, an investigation based on thousands of internal documents at Uber, Le Monde concluded that there was a secret “deal” between Uber and Emmanuel Macron when he was in Bercy. The daily also shows that the former lobbyist in Europe for the company, at the time “senior adviser to the board of directors”, had contributed in 2016 to raising funds for the campaign of the future president. The left calls for a commission of parliamentary inquiryThe oppositions continued on Tuesday to accuse the head of state of having defended the interests of Uber at the time when the company was developing its presence in France, when he himself was minister of the Economy of François Hollande (2014-2016). The government was thus challenged Tuesday in the Assembly on what La France insoumise (LFI) presents as an “Ubergate” during the first session of current affairs questions of the legislature. To Danielle Simonnet, deputy New Economic and Social People’s Union (Nupes)-LFI, who described Emmanuel Macron as “VRP in chief of Uber”, the Minister of SMEs, Trade, Crafts and Tourism replied that the new economy was a source of growth and jobs. “The Minister of the Economy did his job. He received Uber. He also received Netflix, Airbnb, Tesla, closer to us Doctolib”, in particular, said Olivia Grégoire. “And why? Because these players are at the heart of today’s economy, at the heart of the economy of the 21st century. That’s where the growth, the jobs are,” she said. pleaded. “The President of the Republic today, Minister of the Economy yesterday, has taken all measures to encourage the arrival [des plateformes, NDLR] but also the protection of our consumers”, she added. The formations constituting the left alliance Nupes will ask for a parliamentary commission of inquiry, thus confirmed the boss of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure. who (…) quietly, secretly, built a deal with the company which everyone knows was that of the lowest social bidder, which was the Trojan horse of the destruction of a part of our labor code”, he criticized on LCI. The National Rally wants to launch an information mission, announced its president Jordan Bardella, according to whom Emmanuel Macron was at Bercy “the point of entry of private interests into France”. With AFP and Reuters