Energy firms must do more to help bakers cope with soaring bills says French finance minister

Record ID: 1705075

  • Title: Energy firms must do more to help bakers cope with soaring bills says French finance minister
  • Date: 3rd January 2023
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - FEBRUARY 17, 2021) (REUTERS) CUSTOMERS QUEUING IN "LA PARISIENNE" BAKERY CUSTOMER BUYING BAGUETTES BAKERY WORKER CUTTING BAGUETTE, WRAPPING IT AND GIVING TO CUSTOMER BAKER PUTTING BAGUETTES IN BASKET
  • Embargoed: 17th January 2023 11:54
  • Keywords: French bakeries Le Maire energy bills
  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Europe,Budget/Taxation/Revenue,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA003008103012023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: French energy suppliers are not doing enough to help the country's bakeries cope with soaring energy bills, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday (January 3).
    Le Maire, who will meet with the country's energy firms later in the day to discuss the matter, warned the government had "the tools to make energy suppliers meet their commitments towards the state and the companies."
    He however did not say what these tools could be nor name the energy suppliers he was targeting.
    "I am forced and sorry to see is that the commitments which were taken by some energy providers were not respected," Le Maire told a news conference, "I will make these rules and commitments be respected," he said, stressing the crisis came as the baguette, France’s staple bread, made it onto the United Nation’s cultural heritage list in November.
    Le Maire also said the state will write to France's 33,000 bakers to detail the existing and future help they can expect.
    Earlier in the day, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne had confirmed plans to help French bakers cope with rising energy bills, allowing them to spread the payment of their taxes over time and possibly "the payment of their energy bills for the first months of the year."
    (Production: Lucien Libert)
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