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"Come and fill your pockets": Milei travels to France with 13 governors to attract investments in mining, energy and agriculture

The President will lead Argentina Week in Paris, meet with Emmanuel Macron and seek to show federal support to European businessmen, in a context of high country risk and tension with the opposition over the RIGI.

🖼️ AI-generated image that Milei shared on Instagram before the trip. Credit: screenshot reproduced by elDiarioAR. See original image

⚡ KEYS TO THE NEWS

•      🗓️ Milei departs on Tuesday, September 29 and Argentina Week takes place in Paris from 9/30 to 10/2.

•      13 governors of mining, energy and agricultural provinces are traveling. 🤝

•      🇫🇷 On Thursday 1/10: speech at the OECD, meeting with businessmen and audience with Macron at the Elysée.

•      💬 Central message: French investors are welcome to "line their pockets".

•      ⚖️ He defended the RIGI in the face of criticism from the opposition.

🧭 In this article: The trip · The message · The governors · Agenda · Macron · RIGI · Context · Frequently asked questions

President Javier Milei will leave this Tuesday, September 29, at 10 p.m., for Paris to lead a new edition of Argentina Week, a business forum that will take place between September 30 and October 2 and that the Government presents as a showcase to attract European capital. The mission arrives a few days after its passage through New York, where it participated in the UN General Assembly.

The focus of the tour is the sectors in which the Casa Rosada is committed to attracting investment: mining, energy and agribusiness, with the complement of infrastructure, health, technology and artificial intelligence. The delegation includes ministers, businessmen and a dozen governors of provinces with a productive profile, and the agenda also includes meetings related to the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union.

Before traveling, the President projected that Argentine exports will exceed US$ 100,000 million in 2026 and that they could be between US$ 180,000 and 200,000 million in 2031, a figure that the ruling party will use as a central argument before investors.

The message that anticipated the tour arose from an extensive interview with the French weekly Le Point, held in the presidential office of the Casa Rosada. There they asked him why large French companies should trust Argentina, alluding to precedents such as that of Aguas Argentinas, the local subsidiary of Suez, during the 2002 crisis. Milei responded that his administration guarantees the right to property and the fulfillment of contracts, and added:

According to the President, these gains will translate into employment and prosperity for Argentines. The phrase, which quickly became the headline of the trip, summarizes the tone of the mission: a speech of economic openness and legal certainty aimed at the companies of the CAC 40, the main stock market index in Paris.

The staging was also digital. Hours before leaving, Milei posted on Instagram a video generated with artificial intelligence in which he appears at the top of the Eiffel Tower, with the Argentine flag and a lion, to promote Argentina Week.

The federal photo is one of the political bets of the trip. According to the list released by national media, Milei is accompanied by the governors of Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz, Mendoza, San Juan, Catamarca, Salta, Jujuy, Chaco, Corrientes and Entre Ríos, as well as the head of the Buenos Aires government, Jorge Macri. Due to its productive profile, the delegation is organized as follows (indicative classification of this newsroom):

•      ⛏️ Mining and lithium: Marcelo Orrego (San Juan), Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy), Gustavo Sáenz (Salta) and Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza).

•      ⚡ Energy: Rolando Figueroa (Neuquén), Alberto Weretilneck (Río Negro), Ignacio Torres (Chubut) and Claudio Vidal (Santa Cruz).

•      🌾 Agriculture and production: Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos), Juan Pablo Valdés (Corrientes) and Leandro Zdero (Chaco).

•      🏙️ City of Buenos Aires: Jorge Macri, who confirmed his presence at the last minute.

Figueroa and Weretilneck appear with their own names in the panel "Argentinean Gas in the World Market", along with executives from the private sector. Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe and Martín Llaryora from Córdoba, who will send a delegation representing his province, were left out.

Double reading. In addition to the economic component, the presence of the governors has an internal political objective: the government negotiates with the provinces the 2027 Budget and other projects that it intends to send to Congress, including changes in the electoral system. A libertarian official quoted by Infobae stated that, at the very least, they seek to suspend the next PASO. At the same time, media such as elDiarioAR and Perfil reported internal friction over the control of the travel agenda.

•      🛫 Tuesday 29/9, 22:00: departure of the President for France.

•      🍷 Wednesday 30/9: Arrival in Paris and welcome cocktail-dinner at the Argentine Embassy.

•      🎤 Thursday 1/10 (main day): speech at the OECD headquarters on the factors driving Argentine growth; meeting with governors focused on investments; meeting with businessmen and private audience with Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace. On the same day, Macron will receive the official delegation participating in the forum.

•      🏆 During the tour: he will receive a distinction from the Paris Economic Forum and will share an activity with Philippe Aghion, Nobel Prize in Economics 2025.

•      📆 Friday 2/10: Argentina Week closes.

He is accompanied by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo; the President of the Central Bank, Santiago Bausili; the Foreign Minister, Pablo Quirno; the Minister of Deregulation, Federico Sturzenegger, and the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei.

With the French president, Milei chose a cordial tone: he defined him as a friend and thanked him, together with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, for having helped unblock the European votes on the IMF board for the latest agreement with Argentina. Regarding the submarine tender, in which the French Naval Group competes with the German Thyssenkrupp and the South Korean Hanwha, he said that the most convenient option will be chosen according to technical performance and financing.

The trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, on the other hand, continues to be a sensitive point: it faces resistance from French agricultural sectors, an obstacle that runs through the mission's entire agro-export agenda.

The cordiality did not reach French domestic politics. In the interview, Milei described the left's tax proposals as "economic suicide," advised those who "detest France" to vote for those forces, said that eventual protests against his visit would be "a medal" and denied that there is an extreme right, which he described as an invention of his adversaries. He also gave his opinion on immigration in terms that generated repercussions in the French and Argentine media.

Another of the axes of the interview was the Incentive Regime for Large Investments (RIGI), a key tool of the official offer in Europe. Faced with criticism from the opposition, which maintains that the scheme delivers resources such as lithium, gas and mining to multinational companies, Milei responded harshly: he spoke of "economic illiterates" and compared his adversaries with the Macana Brothers, the cavemen in the animated series Los autos locos. To support his position, he mentioned the evolution of YPF and the energy balance.

Critics of the regime, meanwhile, insist that the benefits granted to large companies do not guarantee local spillover. The debate, far from being closed, will once again be at the center of the scene with the governors of mining and energy provinces as protagonists.

The tour comes at a delicate time for the economic program. The country risk is around 600 points and the government seeks to show European investors that the adjustment has a return, while household consumption fell again in August, with a year-on-year drop of 1.1% as reported by elDiarioAR. Added to this are the discussion of the 2027 Budget, the negotiations with the provinces and the political climate prior to the trip.

•      Milei's speech at the OECD and the reaction of the investors present.

•      The possible announcements after the private audience with Macron at the Elysée.

•      The publication of the second part of the interview in Le Point, scheduled for Wednesday.

•      Meetings with governors and their impact on the legislative agenda.

•      The eventual demonstrations of rejection of the visit in Paris.

What is Argentina Week?

It is a business forum that brings together officials, governors and executives to promote investments in Argentina. The Paris edition takes place from September 30 to October 2, 2026.

What did Milei say about investors?

In an interview with Le Point, he said that French investors are welcome "to fill their pockets" in Argentina and that their profits will generate employment and prosperity.

When does Milei meet with Macron?

The private audience is scheduled for Thursday, October 1 at the Elysee Palace, following the presidential speech at the OECD headquarters.

Which governors travel to France?

Thirteen governors: Figueroa, Weretilneck, Torres, Vidal, Cornejo, Frigerio, Sáenz, Valdés, Zdero, Sadir, Orrego and Jalil, in addition to the head of the Buenos Aires government, Jorge Macri.

•      elDiarioAR – Milei showed himself on top of the Eiffel Tower and warned French businessmen

•      Channel 26 – Milei's message to investors prior to his landing in France

•      El Litoral – Milei invited French businessmen to invest in Argentina before traveling to Paris

•      Infobae – The 13 allied governors who will travel with Milei to France

•      Infobae – Milei puts himself at the forefront of the link with allies and the Government plays its silver bullet on the trip to Paris

•      Profile – Milei travels to Paris: 13 governors, bilateral with Macron and friction over the agenda

•      Scope – Javier Milei puts together a federal photo in Paris

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