the essential
What to remember from the interventions during the congress of mayors yesterday in Rignac? We take stock.
Aveyron, preserved from austerity?
The elected officials of the department, nearly 400 present yesterday at the congress of the departmental association of mayors in Rignac, had only one word on their mouth: public finances. It must be said that, by chance of the calendar, Michel Barnier presented his budget in the afternoon to the Council of Ministers. And his famous road map for finding 60 billion…
A budgetary effort in which communities will have to participate. And between two or three bad news, such as the probable reduction of the green fund or the reduction in the overall state allocation to come, another one spread through the aisles of the Salon. According to several reports, the departmental council would be part of the 20% exempt from this contribution to the recovery of public finances… “We will remain very cautious because I have too much experience to know that all this can change! But let’s not shout before it hurts,” reacted President Arnaud Viala. Of which act.
Towards an increase in the price of school canteens?
The various speeches made by elected officials during the mayors’ conference are sometimes an opportunity to make announcements. Arnaud Viala made one yesterday, which was not really expected… In a speech, almost paraphrasing the new Prime Minister on the “collective effort” to be made and “a speech of truth”, he indicated that the tariff current meals for middle school students could evolve. And not in a good way. Currently at €3.08, it will soon be reviewed “in order to continue to offer good food from our region”, explained the head of the Department.
And to continue: “If we remain as we are now, to cover our costs, we will be obliged to open the doors of our canteens to manufacturers. And I don’t want that. Supporting agriculture is not just words: it must translate into actions and efforts. »
The Region in a hurry to pay the bills…
Jean-Marc Calvet, “on behalf of all the mayors present”, launched the subject first. Arnaud Viala took the opportunity to rush in, just after the intervention of regional councilor Stéphane Bérard: the Region would be late in paying the bills. “There is nothing more unbearable than a project being postponed because of financiers who are hanging around. Having communication from a platform is good, but actions are better! », he said, to the applause of the assembly. There is no doubt that the subject will go back to Toulouse…
By Dominique Reynié, political scientist and speaker before the mayors yesterday.
“Saving the planet, no one can be against it. But we must not give in to political ecology, what I call ecologism. Today, questioning an environmental decision amounts to blasphemy. This is the thinking of totalitarian regimes! We must also wonder about the 8% of green parties during the last elections… Above all, this subject must make us modest: France’s share of greenhouse gas emissions in the world is 0.8%. We can stop living and we won’t save anything. The most polluters are the poor countries because they seek to enrich themselves. This is what we did in other times, so what can we blame these people for today? Should we tell them to stay poor to save biodiversity, we the rich? It is really time to put humans back at the center, in the famous biodiversity. Because soon, we will have the impression of being too many on this earth… And I wonder if it is not because of this that we no longer reproduce!”
