(FILES) This photograph taken on January 14, 2025 shows new residential buildings in Bordeaux, southwestern France. By 2025, "we're going to be seeing redundancy plans in our companies", warned the Chairman of the Economic Committee of AIMCC, the association of leading materials manufacturers, at a press conference on January 30, 2025. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)