MEPs adopted the second part of the 100 billion euro plan to counteract the effects of the pandemic on the economy. Oppositions denounce “sprinkle”.
Le Monde with AFP
The National Assembly voted, Tuesday, November 2, the pursuit of billions of the stimulus plan in 2022, despite the criticism of the oppositions on “sprinkling” and a lack of readability, pending the investment plan. France 2030.
Credits for the next year are part of the post-Covid-19 of 100 billion euros announced for 2020 to 2022, around three “pillars”: “ecology”, “competitiveness” and “Cohesion of the territories”.
Some 55 billion have already been engaged, welcomed the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor, greeting the “speed” of this plan and its “flexibility”. “Funds have worked well,” like Mrimprenov ‘, an energy renovation assistance for individuals, and “appropriations should be given,” said the General Rapporteur, Laurent Saint-Martin (the Republic in March, LRM) , who qualifies them with “growth boosters”.
“The leverage effect on the economy does not seem to me to the height of the state’s effort,” the President of the Finance Commission, Eric Woerth (Republicans, LR) nuanced.
“Lack of readability”
In detail, 12.9 billion euros are registered in payment appropriations in 2022 in the mission “stimulus plan” voted. The government also recognizes other budget lines, such as the decline in business production taxes.
In unison, right and left have pointed “a lack of blatant readability”, “sprinkling” and a “tangle of the plans”, with start-up from 2022 from France 2030, the investment plan announced by Emmanuel Macron. “It sounds like a positive advance but also a disadvantage of your first stimulus”, “said Valerie Rabault socialist leaders. Communists and “Insoumis” have requested the end of “blank checks” to companies without counterparties.
Charles de Courson (Freedoms and Territories) has taken over the reserves of the revival plan assessment committee, chaired by Benoît Ceteur, who recently emphasized its effectiveness but sometimes to the detriment of the quality of certain projects. “The policy of the figure guided you, it must be rectified in 2022,” pleaded the member.
Crushing any “sprinkling” and praising the “simplicity” of the plan, the minister also sought to reassure on the engendered deficit. With the growth provided for at 6.25% “at least” in 2021, “the State could inhabit additional tax revenues”; But if it were the case, “they would go to the reduction of the deficit and the debt,” he hammered.