for Agnès Pannier-Runacher, “public money must help make carbon-free solutions less expensive” – Libération

While the government is divided over the increase in gas taxation, the new Minister of Ecological Transition defends the rigor promoted by Michel Barnier but maintains her intention to tax gas as well as several other brown niches and, overall, to green up the budget.

Increase the tax on electricity or on gas? One will be less painful for the French wallet, the other more ecologically virtuous. While the finance bill presented on Thursday October 10 arrives in the Assembly this week, the government is struggling over the most acceptable measure to find new revenue in times of budgetary austerity. In the anti-fossil camp, currently in favor of an increase in gas taxation, we find Agnès Pannier-Runacher. This Monday, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy pleads, in an interview with Liberation, for increased greening of taxation. And despite several significant cuts to the Green Fund or MaPrimeRénov’, she assures that she wants to continue ecological planning.

Upon arriving in Matignon, Michel Barnier jointly elevated financial and ecological debt to the rank of his priorities. In view of the budget for 2025,