Read the Full Transcript of Bloomberg’s Interview With Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron during an interview in Versailles, France, on May 13.
Photographer: Cyril Marcilhacy/BloombergFollowing is a transcript of French President Emmanuel Macron’s interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait.
John Micklethwait: President Macron, thank you for talking to Bloomberg. We’re here at your annual Choose France conference for foreign investors. And as long as I’ve known you, you have always wanted to prepare France to like business more but also business to like France more. And you look and you see what is happening here. You have had many successes. You are about to trumpet €15 billion of investment in France, but you also know France has problems; the economy is not growing that much. The economy since you came in has grown roughly half as fast as America. You still have a state that takes up 57% of GDP and you have all that red tape which your government says it wants to get rid of, that is around 3% of GDP. So how do you persuade people to choose France against that?