Overview
- The government hosted the first Choose France event dedicated to domestic firms, gathering roughly 150–200 companies at Paris’s Maison de la Chimie.
- Bercy tallied 151 projects worth about €30–30.4 billion, of which €9.2 billion are newly flagged and the rest were previously announced over the past year.
- Ministers highlighted energy, agro‑food, health, chemistry, space, AI and digital infrastructure, with several new allocations pointing to data centers.
- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told entrepreneurs that some recently voted taxes will never be applied, as business groups warn that political and fiscal uncertainty is damping investment.
- Analyses point to weakening industrial indicators, including a 2024 drop in corporate investment, fewer net factory openings, rising failures and about 6,700 net salaried FTE job losses reported for 2025.