“L’affairisme d’État, c’est terminé dans ce pays”, said the Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko who presided, on Tuesday 18 February 2025, at the opening of the 4th edition of the Forum de la PME. The French Government has promised the support of the State to’serious entrepreneurs’, announcing at the same time the end of un-Catholic practices between certain private companies and the public authorities. We will combat and put an end to the practices we have found here where a good part of this private sector was enriching itself with surcharges, free markets, arpentant le palais, creating contacts with the public authorities. This is it! “The real private sector, the one who wants and knows how to do business, will have all the support, guidance and protection of the State”. This, he explained, “will be submitted to the National Assembly to better protect and promote our economy”.
The Commission is also proposing to extend the scope of the directive to include the use of the term ‘commercial vehicle’ to cover vehicles of categories M1 and N1.
