DECRYPTION – The new prime minister has been responsible since 2020 for planning the state's long-term strategy at the head of a high planning commission. Its effectiveness was recently highlighted by a Senate report.
«To date, the contribution of the High Commission for Planning (HCP) to the definition of public policies has not fully met the significant expectations that were placed in this body at its creation.“. This is the damning observation drawn up by the senator (RN) of Pas-de-Calais, Christopher Szczurek, in an information report submitted in September 2024 on the effectiveness of the HCP, the administration led by the new Prime Minister François Bayrou for the last four years. Report whose conclusions were adopted and published by the Finance Committee of the Upper House.
Emmanuel Macron appointed his ally to this position in September 2020 to reconnect with long-term thinking and planning, when the first wave of the health crisis had just revealed the structural vulnerabilities of the State. Clearly, the idea was to prevent rather than cure, to anticipate rather than suffer, through the production of strategic notes in each of the major…
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