Vídeo: Macron inaugura Salão Automóvel de Paris em plena crise europeia no setor

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gentlemen the speakers will now be available for Photograph as France and the EU grapple with the severe car industry crisis French president Emanuel macro inaugurated on Monday the 90th edition of the Paris Motor Show it’s one of the most important events within the automobile industry and just to give you a few numbers about this crisis that is hitting France uh particularly new car registrations have been plummeting Within the country these past few months reaching their lowest level in 20 years and we’re seeing similar Trends uh across Europe minus 18% in new car registrations in August and major players within the French automobile industry such as for example Michelin have even paused production at some of their specialty Tire factories in France the French President uh did mention this difficult moment for French and EU uh car makers do in part of the ferocious competition from Chinese uh Rivals he did say on Monday that it is necessary in times like these to protect France it’s normal to put in place tariffs he said alluding uh to the EU commission’s plan to heavily tax cheap electric uh vehicles that are produced uh by Chinese car makers and that have been flooding the EU market and driving the prices down Sophia Kenova reporting from Paris for your news