Launch of the ski season in France, in the Alps: the first resorts open this weekend. A season that opens again this year in a complicated context. With problems recruiting seasonal workers that appeared with the Covid, and rising energy costs. To talk about it, Claude Jay, mayor of the town of Belleville in Savoie, where the resorts of Val Thorens, Les Menuires and Saint Martin are located, is the guest of RFI’s midday.