Overview
- Authored by Frédérique Macarez, Antoine Saintoyant and Dominique Schelcher, the roughly 100‑page report was delivered to ministers Vincent Jeanbrun and Serge Papin on Wednesday.
- Thirty recommendations include a minimum €2 levy on online purchases of imported goods and treating logistics warehouses as taxable commercial surfaces.
- The plan calls for dereferencing extra‑EU platforms that breach European sanitary, environmental or social rules, plus expanded mayoral powers over new retail installations.
- Measures proposed to curb vacancy include capping certain commercial rents and increasing taxes on empty premises in city centers and priority neighborhoods.
- The diagnosis cites a deep slump in ready‑to‑wear, e‑commerce sales rising from €65 billion to €175 billion in ten years, and growing risks of food deserts, with Shein’s first French physical store illustrating intensifying pressure on local shops.