Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk will meet French President
Emmanuel Macron and different political leaders on Monday at a enterprise
convention near Paris, the Elysee Palace stated, confirming
earlier media stories, Development stories citing Reuters.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla who purchased social community Twitter in a
$44 billion deal final 12 months, will meet Macron on the palace earlier than
attending lunch with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, the finance
ministry informed Reuters.
Musk may also go to the sixth version of the annual “Select
France” summit in Versailles, geared toward boosting worldwide
funding in France.
Le Maire informed BFM TV that the talks between the federal government and
Musk would cowl a number of subjects, together with electrical automobiles.
Requested by BFM TV if any announcement was probably, Le Maire stated
“all investments which are being made immediately are the results of months
and even years of negotiations.”
Dealing with stress over a extensively unpopular proposal to boost the
French retirement age – which weighed on Macron’s approval scores
– the president has been searching for to win again momentum by
championing a push in the direction of the inexperienced trade sector.
Final week, France beat competitors from Germany and the
Netherlands for ProLogium’s first abroad automobile battery plant,
because of heavy authorities lobbying, deal sweeteners and
aggressive energy costs, executives from the Taiwanese firm
stated.
