Macron meets on Monday with unions and employers to contain the crisis by the 'yellow vests'

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The president of France, Emmanuel Macron has prepared this Sunday the ground to be on the front line of battle in the crisis of the 'yellow vests' with a scenario of concertación in form of meeting this Monday morning with unions, employers and high institutions of the State.

That appointment will be the first step before the announcements made that same night, which will be his the first public intervention after more than a week of silence during which he left his first minister, Édouard Philippe, to put his face in the management of protests of unprecedented violence.

Philippe and several of his ministers endeavored to convince that Macron is aware of anger and has opened "a listening phase."

Government spokesman, Benjamin Griveaux, made an act of contrition on his behalf that the boss of The State "has recognized that some of its words have been able to hurt", in an allusion to phrases that have forged its image of arrogance and have fueled hatred against it visible in the acts of 'yellow vests'

The riots have not stopped

The question now is what kind of measures can to calm this anger because the figures of participation in the demonstrations on Saturday (136,000 , according to the Ministry of the Interior) are almost recacadas of those of a week before.

The security device "exceptional" (89,000 agents) that the Government deployed the day before on the fourth consecutive Saturday of mobilizations of the 'yellow vests' limited the degree of physical violence (there were many less injured).

But in spite of the near 2,000 arrests practiced by the security forces, many of them preventive in nature control s in the accesses to the concentrations several hours before they began, did not prevent neither the disturbances nor the destruction.

The deputy of the mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, noted that this Saturday there was "much more damage materials "in the city than on December 1, with" hundreds "of businesses that suffered damages and" tens "that were looted and robbed.

The same was experienced in other cities, such as Toulouse, Saint-Etienne or Bordeaux where its mayor, the former prime minister, Alain Juppé, stressed that "the consequences of all this are disastrous" for trade, for tourist appeal, but also for "the damage to the international image of France. "

The conservative Juppé, Philippe's political godfather, insisted that " this must cease "in which the president of the Republic must speak" fast and strong ", and that "deserve an answer" some of the reivi ndications of the "yellow vests", in particular the purchasing power.

In a not too distant line, the Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, former socialist baron, stressed that "now the main issue is purchasing power "and said he was convinced that Macron's words will show that" he has understood this movement "and will set the direction for the country to move to" a new indispensable social contract ".

concessions that are shuffled

Of the various shuffled tracks, the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, closed the entry of a significant revaluation of the minimum wage in January that goes further than 1.8% which marks the formula that is currently used because "it is known that destroys jobs and is not a good method."

After having given this week to the first claim of the 'yellow vests' of to give up the upload a tax on fuel in 2019, with which it was expected to raise 4,000 million euros, the main scenarios that are left to Macron are tax rebates.

Be that as it may, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, already anticipated this Sunday that "the current crisis will have a significant impact on the level of growth at the end of the year."

The Federation of Trade and Distribution (CDF) already has anticipated that the sector will lose more than 1,000 million euros in turnover and the president of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), François Asselin, has warned that there will be "many bankruptcies", in an interview to Le Journal du Dimanche . Asselin assumed that the losses will reach 10 billion euros and have their corollary of layoffs.

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