Purchasing power, health and climate: Elisabeth Borne details her government’s “emergencies”

The Prime Minister gathered all her government in Matignon on Friday to set the roadmap for the next few weeks.

Le Monde

A week after the announcement of the composition of her government, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne brought together all her ministers in Matignon, Friday, May 27, to fix her roadmap. At the end of the meeting, the government’s heading explained before the press that purchasing power, health and climate will be the three “emergencies” to which its team will have to tackle.

“The first weeks of our action must be devoted to responding to the emergencies of the French,” pleaded M me terminal, which assured that purchasing power was the first of its priorities. “We have agreed that he should not have forgotten or dead angles, she said before the press. Besides retirees, employees, the self-employed, public officials, I asked my ministers as Have special attention for students. “

After the first Council of Ministers on Monday, the new government spokesperson Olivia Grégoire had advanced the idea on Monday of a “first bill (…) adopted in the Council of Ministers before the Legislative Elections” on The question of purchasing power. “It will be in this text (…) to help all French people reduce their constrained expenses. I think of energy prices (…). It will be a question of acting on the price of food with The food check, “she said.

Olivia Grégoire had also said that the government was going to “increase social benefits” through pensions, before adding that the executive “will revalue the treatment of civil servants. It will be done with the recovery of the index point of the public service (…) The Macron premium will no longer be exceptional but lasting “. However, a calendar on which it was necessary to retropeder and provide details. These will ultimately be two bills – one relating to the measures, the other on their funding – which will be presented after the legislative elections, the executive confining himself to a simple “communication” in the Council of Ministers upstream of the ballot.

proposals expected on hospitals

In addition to the question of purchasing power, that of hospitals facing a staff shortage has also been mentioned by M me terminal. The Prime Minister asked, Friday, the “concerned ministers” to make proposals very quickly to take effective measures for the summer “. Finally, the government’s chief said it wanted to lead the “site” of ecological planning “to fast walking”, calling all the ministries to “mobilize” and “participate”.

All the ministers gathered around Elisabeth Borne, Friday May 27 in Matignon. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP

“But these emergency sites obviously do not exhaust the action of the government,” noted the Prime Minister, who gave “three watchwords: speed, efficiency and results “. In order to follow up on these roadmaps, M Borne announced that a government seminar would take place “before the end of June” around Emmanuel Macron. And that it would bring together the ministers “in the same format” every month in Matignon.

/Media reports.