The Prime Minister will bring his government together on Monday to work on the future of France and bring forward, by the end of the year, proposals to be implemented over three years.
Michel Barnier will speak with his ministers on Monday morning during a seminar intended to establish, by the end of the year, a plan for the next three years, thus allowing him to project himself beyond the Budget marathon in progress.
Preoccupied since his appointment two months ago by the urgency of preparing the 2025 budget, the Prime Minister wants to show that he is there for the long term. And this, without worrying about the sword of Damocles of voting for a motion of censure in December when he will probably engage the responsibility of his government to have these perilous finance bills definitively adopted.
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«5-year vision, 3-year action», This is the new leitmotif at Matignon. After a first seminar in September to prepare his general policy declaration, Michel Barnier wants through this second “collective meeting», then a third in December, leading to “concrete proposals on the priorities of the French» which will be presented in an action plan, according to those around him.
A goal of cohesion
On the menu Monday from 9:00 a.m. for the forty ministers, five themes: State/communities, work/social benefits (“encourage work), immigration/integration (“regulate immigration to better integrate), overseas and simplification.
A lead minister will manage each theme and the objective will be to define “one or two priority measures» to be implemented, according to Matignon. Two ministers will make interventions on the current context: Minister Delegate for European Affairs Benjamin Haddad on “European issues» and the Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand will report on his participation in the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.
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The seminar will conclude with a lunch “with the aim of cohesion» while the coalition between the right and the central bloc is illustrated by its disagreements on a number of subjects, including immigration. This lack of unity is seen almost daily in the Assembly on budgetary texts that are little defended or even contested by part of the majority.
Some 1,500 amendments to debate
For their part, the deputies will resume on Monday the examination of the revenue part of the Social Security budget with the result of a probable rejection, which would amount to refusal of the entire text. The expenditure aspect would then not be examined, which would spare the government a lost discussion on the postponement to July 1 of the indexation of pensions, reviled on all sides.
The deputies will then get back to discussions on the revenue part of the state budget while there remain some 1,500 amendments to debate. A rejection is expected, as in committee, the majority not supporting the billions in additional revenue voted by the deputies of the New Popular Front.
Here too, a red light would carry the entire text which would go to the Senate in its original version, before a joint committee so that the two chambers try to agree on a common version. At the end of the process, the government should not, however, be able to escape a 49.3 to have its two budgetary texts adopted, the left and the RN having already announced their intention to vote against.
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