At the Davos of the suburbs, the State thanked, the financial elites canvassed | EUROtoday

ALSO READ Extension of the suburban area: these cities gained over by “suburbanization” This “Davos of the suburbs” was held on the Palais d'Iéna in Paris on September 17 and 18, on the initiative of Aziz Senni. Among the targets: “to double, by 2030, the amount of public and private investments, national and foreign, directed towards the suburbs”, declared Aziz Senni. The methodology requires “mobilizing the economic elites: the best, the biggest, the strongest”.

“Big” and “strong”, Xavier Niel actually is. The occasion's sponsor cultivates his picture as enterprise angel by way of its Parisian start-up campus, the most important on this planet, Station F. “We ask a lot of politicians and society,” notes the boss of Free. “But every person who undertakes is capable of changing the world, for better or for worse. That's what the creators of Uber, Airbnb or Free Mobile did. I don't know if we can expect as much from politicians. They can give us small facilitators, but it's up to each of us to seize our abilities to create things, to invent, to innovate and to have a global impact.”

Seeking funding for her dwelling supply enterprise, Yasmine Iamarene is not going to have come for nothing. The 37-year-old entrepreneur, who employs 250 individuals nearly completely in working-class suburbs, was in a position to get in contact with representatives of an funding fund and a supervisor of the Schneider group, who got here to the Palais d'Iéna. “For us, young people from the suburbs, especially if you are a woman, becoming an entrepreneur is even more unimaginable than pursuing a career as a doctor or lawyer. I also came to tell people like me that they can do it.”

Mayors and regional presidents on the entrance line

The State was shunned, however not utterly banned from the discussion board. The parliamentary teams within the National Assembly have been invited to come back and categorical themselves, in 5 minutes every, on their imaginative and prescient of the financial growth of the suburbs. Among these absent have been the representatives of the Republican Right. Those current (Laurent Marcangeli, Karl Olive, Jean-Noël Barrot, Boris Vallaud, Cyrielle Chatelain, Éric Coquerel and Jean-Philippe Tanguy) have been cautious to not element particular measures. Aziz Senni had publicly warned them a couple of minutes earlier than: “We no longer want to be subjected to decisions taken out of touch with reality, in small Parisian offices, outside of any form of reality.”