Michel Barnier announced this Monday, December 2 that he was committed to ensuring that there would be no delisting of medicines in 2025. This measure was one of the red lines set by the National Rally so as not to censor the government when voting on budgets.
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Medicines in a pharmacy in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), in December 2023. | MATHIS HARPHAM / ARCHIVES OUEST-FRANCE
The government has “committed to ensuring that there is no delisting of medicines” in 2025, Michel Barnier said this Monday, December 2, in a press release. The Prime Minister thus accedes to a new request from the National Rally, which had made the question of the price of medicines a red line not to be crossed if Michel Barnier did not want to see his government be censored during budget votes (that of the State and that of social security).
“Many requests have been expressed on (the subject of drug prices) Ms. Marine Le Pen, on behalf of the National Rally, reminded the Prime Minister again this morning during a telephone exchange”it is written in this press release.
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Michel Barnier recalls the imperative of having a budget
Threatened with censorship by the left and the far right on the Social Security financing bill which returns to the Assembly at 3 p.m. for a final reading, Michel Barnier recalls that this text “does not contain in itself any specific provision on the reimbursement of medicines” which falls within the regulatory and non-legislative domain. And he “recalls the importance and the imperative need for France to adopt financial texts and a budget for 2025”.
