While the Barnier government continues its balancing act, the Prime Minister was the guest of “L’Événement” Thursday evening on France 2. The opportunity to develop several of his projects.
03/10/24 – 23:31 – A “single social allowance” from 2025?
END OF LIVE – This is in any case one of the projects that the new Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, said he wanted to carry out on Thursday evening. The objective of this “single social allowance” will be in particular that “work pays more than the addition of allowances”. However, the tenant of Matignon was lucid: the “construction site will take a little time”. Furthermore, not all allocations will be systematically reduced. That intended for people with disabilities could in particular be increased.
03/10/24 – 22:38 – Immigration: “I can combine humanity or dignity with firmness”, assures Michel Barnier
“There will be rigorous measures to control immigration, better control European borders”, assumed the Prime Minister on Thursday evening on the set of The Event. “I can combine humanity or dignity with firmness. If we control immigration, and we will control it concretely, we will be able to welcome those we welcome with more dignity,” he also justified himself, adding: “ Perhaps there will be changes to the law if necessary. There is progress possible within the framework of the current law.
03/10/24 – 9:47 p.m. – Towards mergers in public services
Still on the France 2 set, Michel Barnier gave the government’s ideas for making savings in public services, mentioning in particular mergers and civil servants not being replaced when they retire. “We will probably not replace all civil servants when they are not in direct contact with citizens,” said the Prime Minister. And added: “We are going to group together administrations or state agencies that are duplicating.”
03/10/24 – 9:25 p.m. – Companies concerned, the wealthiest people… Michel Barnier provides several figures
The Prime Minister was Caroline Roux’s guest on the set The Event from France 2 this Thursday evening. Michel Barnier made some figures on taxes. Concerning the companies from which the State will request “a temporary exceptional effort”, 300 will be targeted for “one year or perhaps two years”. The selection criterion? “Those with a turnover of a billion or more,” said the tenant of Matignon. Michel Barnier also affirmed that the effort which will be required of “the most fortunate” people will make it possible to raise “two billion euros”.
03/10/24 – 8:45 p.m. – The Prime Minister guest on the show L’Événement on France 2
Michel Barnier is Caroline Roux’s guest this Thursday on the show The Event broadcast on France 2. Two days after his general policy declaration, the Prime Minister will be questioned on various subjects including taxes, the budget and even insecurity. Several political figures are expected in the second part of the broadcast, including the macronist Aurore Bergé, the rebellious Manuel Bompard, the socialist Olivier Faure, but also the RN deputy Laure Lavalette and Éric Ciotti.
03/10/24 – 7:30 p.m. – Working-class neighborhoods, largely forgotten by the Barnier government?
In any case, this is what is stated in a column published in Release this Thursday afternoon a collective of left-wing elected officials. “No direction, no political ambition, budgets at half mast… and no minister for working-class neighborhoods,” they denounce, deploring that the Prime Minister did not have the slightest word for the inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods during his general policy speech on Tuesday. For them, “it cannot be a simple omission. It is a desire.” They regret that the alerts that were issued were not taken into account, recalling that during the riots in reaction to Nahel’s death, “the government’s only response was repressive and authoritarian”. Among the signatories of the platform, we find the bosses of the socialists, Olivier Faure, the environmentalists, Marine Tondelier, and the communists, Fabien Roussel.
03/10/24 – 18:28 – Barnier on the front line, Macron is forgotten
Since his appointment, the Prime Minister wants to show that he is in charge and that he can impose certain choices, both in terms of measures and in terms of the composition of the government, on the Head of State. And if Michel Barnier is also present, Emmanuel Macron is much more discreet. He will observe a period of silence according to the instructions of the Elysée at Franceinfothe idea would be to be forgotten in order to be better seen when he returns to the forefront. Emmanuel Macron’s popularity, which had been at half mast for several months, took a hit after the announcement of the dissolution and again after the appointment of the Prime Minister in dissonance with the result of the legislative elections.
The head of state is expected to remain discreet in the coming weeks, focusing more on measures at European level and leaving a large part of national policy in the hands of his Prime Minister. But this discretion is not an admission of failure for Emmanuel Macron who regrets nothing about the dissolution and his choice for Matignon, he believes on the contrary that this requires a new way of working and that this allows a “step in before” written Franceinfo.
03/10/24 – 4:29 p.m. – 170 LR deputies and senators approve Bruno Retailleau on the rule of law
Bruno Retailleau’s outing on the right-wing state continues to provoke a reaction from the political class. The minister who judged the rule of law “neither intangible nor sacred” in the JDD on September 30 clarified his thoughts on RTL on October 3: “I never wanted to abolish the rule of law. Quite simply, I “I want to move the cursor within the rule of law because there are laws that do not protect the French and I want to move those.” The same day, 170 parliamentarians from LR indicate that they support the position of Bruno Retailleau in a forum: “The rule of law is essential to democracy but it has never been fixed”, write these signatories in a text published by Le Figaro. The signatory deputies and senators call to “overcome any judgment of European courts likely to undermine our constitutional order” in matters of immigration.
The Prime Minister expressed his way of thinking on this subject during his general policy speech, recalling that the rule of law cannot be called into question, but considering that certain measures or the legal arsenal could be brought to evolve.
03/10/24 – 2:38 p.m. – How does the government want to recover 60 billion euros to straighten out the 2025 budget?
Matignon and Bercy have set an objective concerning the recovery of the 2025 budget while the state of the public accounts alarms the Prime Minister: 60 billion euros must be recovered from 2025. Two thirds of this sum must be obtained through a reduction expenses, a reduction which therefore promises to be significant. For this, several measures are planned, in particular the postponement of the revaluation of pensions for six months (the amounts are revised on July 1, 2025 and not on January 1 and the increase will not be retroactive). As for the other 20 billion, they will be the fruit of new revenues made possible in particular by an increase in certain contributions and taxes for some companies or for the wealthiest households. The details of the measures planned to reduce expenditure and generate revenue must be specified in the draft 2025 budget which will be unveiled on October 10, ten days late.
03/10/24 – 12:50 – The Macronists weakened by the government coalition
The coalition formed between the presidential party and the right has not brought only good things to Emmanuel Macron’s camp. The Ensemble pour la République group in the Assembly has faced several departures of elected officials since the appointment of the government. The fourth desertion is signed by Stella Dupont, an elected official from the center-left who, like the others before her, denounces a government and a policy leaning too far to the right to correspond to her. “I do not share this choice of joining such a majority” she declared to Le Parisien. The MP now associated with the non-registered group evokes “real points of divergence” and cites as an example the “line on immigration, which is absolutely not mine” or “the appointment of Bruno Retailleau” a “profile Politics is not my cup of tea at all. It is also a proximity with the RN which is criticized by the government: the Minister of the Economy is reframed when he places the RN outside the republican arc, but that of the Interior is not when he takes back the ideas of the RN.
The elected official also notes disagreements with the presidential party, particularly on the question of fiscal justice and taxes for the richest. “It has been a point of divergence with the group for a long time, Gabriel Attal knew it.”
