According to Senator Olivier Rietmann, they have “never been evaluated, never counted”

Fabien Gay, communist senator of Seine-Saint-Denis, and Olivier Rietmann, senator Les Républicains de la Haute-Saône, are of opposite political edges. They sign the parliamentary report, the fruit of six months of investigation into public aid to companies. Both auditioned major business leaders and senior officials. According to the report, 211 billion euros in public aid was granted. “The administration had no precise definition of what should be public aid. We did not know; neither the amounts nor the number of devices”Recalls Fabien Gay.

How to explain that the state does not know what comes out of its funds for companies? “The State has the means to do so, but it does not do it because it is not the priority of the moment”assures Olivier Rietmann. And the senator to add that there are 2,252 business aid devices. “It means that for years, the answer to any concern for any (…) çAA was a device with money on the table, never evaluated, never counted (…) parce that we have ever set up evaluation systems “he details.

Find the entire interview in the video above