The government announced, via its spokesperson on Sunday October 13, a new law on immigration, including the examination could start “early 2025” in Parliamentjust one year after the previous text on the subject which had fractured the majority in the National Assembly.
“There will be a need for a new law”in particular to allow “the extension of the period of detention in administrative detention centers” of illegal foreigners deemed dangerous, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon declared this Sunday on BFMTV.
One of the avenues considered is to increase the maximum retention period from 90 to 210 dayswhich is currently only possible in relation to terrorist offences.
“We are not stopping ourselves from thinking about other arrangements”added the spokesperson, judging that there should be “no taboo when it comes to protecting the French”. The executive wants this text to reach Parliament “early 2025”.
“No increase in gas taxes”
“There will be no increase in gas taxes”Maud Bregeon also assured this Sunday, once again correcting a statement by the Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher who had mentioned this possibility on Friday October 11 through an amendment to the finance bill.
This tax “doubled at the beginning of last year, it has already increased”argued Maud Bregeon, evoking on BFMTV an “arbitration” by Prime Minister Michel Barnier on this issue.
The increase in this tax in January materialized the government’s desire to exit the tariff shield put in place during the energy crisis from the end of 2021 to avoid excessive increases in consumer bills.
Friday, during a press conference, Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher indicated that the government was studying by way of amendment the possibility of increasing the gas tax.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher’s statements contradicted
“The challenge is also to work on brown niches through the increase in the automobile penalty, through the elimination of the reduced VAT rate of 5.5% on the installation of fossil fuel boilers and finally, by government amendmentthrough an increase in taxes on plane tickets and gas,” the minister declared on Friday during her press briefing.
The minister justified the hypotheses formulated by the need, according to her, to “give coherent price signals between carbon solutions and decarbonized solutions”. But the Minister’s statements were contradicted the next day, Saturday October 12, by Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin, who said he was not “in favor” of it. The finance bill presented this week “does not contain an increase in gas taxes”, he noted.
Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher “simply clarified what is in the government’s announcementsas presented in the press kit” of the finance bill, under the heading “measures by amendment (plane tickets, fossil fuels)”, his cabinet reacted to AFP on Saturday.
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