Mobility, a subject at the heart of tensions between Geneva and Haute-Savoie. The president of the Haute-Savoie departmental council, Martial Saddier, was the guest of Béatrice Rul, at 7:30 a.m., on Radio Lac.
“We are going to build the A412 motorway”
The construction of the future A412, between Machilly and Thonon, in Haute-Savoie, is not happening at all in Geneva. The national advisor, Delphine Klopfenstein Broggini, recalled, Friday, on Radio Lac, that France has the obligation to notify this type of development, in Geneva, before construction…
“Each opinion is respectable, but I pass the buck. That is to say, if France and Haute-Savoie have to contact our Swiss friends about the Espoo convention each time there is a project, that will be to say that in the future, they will have to apply this position to themselves. I have been president of the departmental council of Haute-Savoie for three years and I have perfectly respected the projects. who are hired by our friends Swiss when they are 100% Genevan or Vaudois or Valaisan projects. To my knowledge, I have never been asked for an opinion and often, I learn about the announcements in the press, including when they are projects. for certain cross-border people. So, I think that when we want to cooperate, we must apply to ourselves what we wish to see applied to others. That is the first element. , it is a project which is 100% French and 100% Upper Savoyard and which has absolutely no impact on our Swiss friends and even less on Geneva since it is quite simply a two-lane section of 12 kilometers which is missing between two sections which are already two lanes. It’s nice from Geneva to explain that it will cause nuisance, but I’m thinking of the inhabitants of Périgné, Bons, Douvaine who are today suffering from unbearable traffic, including heavy goods vehicles, whereas if we was doing this section, and we are going to do it, very clearly, since all French legal procedures have been purged, including with a favorable opinion from the Constitutional Council which in France is the supreme judge which definitively validated this project which is once again like a cork.
“You have to be careful in life not to give lessons to others”
Geneva has announced its desire to have a metro by 2045 which will connect the foot of the Jura to the Salève. We are counting on you to follow up and make the necessary adjustments on your side…
“This is a typical example where I learned about things in the press. I also refer to the Geneva elected officials who have been quite inclined in recent years to take a position on projects in Haute Savoie. We must be careful in life not to give lessons to others and be careful to apply these principles. In any case, I apply this very clearly and you have never heard me take a position on Geneva projects or Swiss projects. not competent in railway matters. It’s more the State and the region on the French side. Obviously, if I can support the project in one way or another, we will do so. The border funds are compensation for local authorities. do not receive French taxation because they do not have employees who work in their municipality and who work in Geneva. We must be very clear, the Geneva funds are compensation and you will not find any on that. elected in France, whatever the political sensibility, which does not do not constantly remind that Geneva is an extraordinary opportunity for Haute-Savoie, that the 73 agreement is an opportunity. But this money, first of all, it belongs, it is in the agreement of 73, to the Haute-Savoie authorities. The 73 agreement consists of compensating for the lack of taxation received by the municipalities. This agreement is also very favorable to Geneva’s taxation, since if Geneva’s taxation were subject to a tax agreement such as the canton of Vaud and Valais, the canton of Geneva would pay more taxes to the French State than it pays in Geneva funds. At a given moment, it’s good when we talk about things, be extremely precise, and explain on both sides of the border, both to the Genevans and the Savoyards, the reality of the situation. agreement of 73, and I challenge anyone in a public debate to come and contradict me or say the opposite of what I have just stated.
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