The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced Wednesday August 31, at the end of a governmental seminar, to have fixed a list of sixty priority policies, “accompanied by targeted objectives”. This seminar brought together, after a brief council of ministers, the forty-two members of the government, deputy ministers and secretaries of state included.
The head of government explained that consultations would be put in place from September, territory by territory, “to bring out appropriate solutions”. While the Head of State had demanded “very strong unit” of the government after a series of controversies during the summer, Mme Borne greeted a team “experienced and united”. She specified that the government had decided to fight four fundamental battles:
- ecological transition and “ecological planning”;
- full employment, to remove all the obstacles that weigh on the labor market;
- energy, industrial, food, digital and cultural sovereignty;
- the equality of chances.
These battles will be articulated “around measures and reforms, with a precise timetable, using a new method, a CNR [conseil national de la refondation] », explained the Prime Minister. The body desired by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, should bring together “fifty actors to make a common diagnosis around full employment, school, health, aging well and ecological transition”she added.
Pension reform is “not abandoned”
According to a schedule detailed by Mme Borne, the first texts presented to the Council of Ministers “during the month of September” will focus on unemployment insurance, the development of renewable energies, and the orientation and programming bill of the Ministry of the Interior.
At the same time, Emmanuel Macron will install on September 8 his controversial “National Refoundation Council” who “will bring together some fifty representatives of our society and experts to shed light on the debate”according to M.me Borne.
In 2023, the military programming law, a bill for the improvement of daily justice, another on energy and the climate will follow. “to be broken down sector by sector”texts on immigration, full employment, education and the Olympic Games.
As for the delicate and controversial pension reform, no timetable has been given, but it is not “not abandoned” and his “gradual deployment” would be led “during the year 2023”assured the government spokesman, Olivier Véran.