Addressing a crowd of industrialists at the Élysée Palace on Thursday, Macron presented the pillars of the future French "green industry" law. To speed up industrial processes and achieve the objectives already set, Macron called for "a European regulatory pause" on environmental constraints. "We are implementing what we have decided, but we must stop adding to it," the president said in a speech on Thursday. "The risk we run is, basically, of being the best performers in terms of regulation and the worst performers in terms of financing," he added.