Faced with ecological urgency, government is still looking for its line

The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, brought together a government seminar on Wednesday to fix the “framework of government action”. Priority of priorities, environmental policy is still struggling to find concrete translations.

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of the unit. Of the order. Consistency. This Wednesday, August 31, they were complete, ministers as secretaries of state, invited to the Elysée to make a sort of official school year during a government seminar.

No one has been forgotten, to the point that the Murat fair, where the Council of Ministers, too cramped, had to be swapped for the imposing village hall of the presidential palace. One way to show that the forty-two members of the government will be ready to face the time of storms, that of climatic disasters, energy challenge and inflationary stress that is looming. And, above all, that they will do it together, in good understanding. “We speak to do and to be useful, never to argue,” said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, at the exit of the seminar intended to fix the “framework of government action” and the sixty priority policies in a world “in rocking”, where ecology is erected primarily for priorities.

After his words on “the end of abundance, the end of carelessness, the end of the evidence” and a summer marked by the repeated heat waves and the titanic fires, the head of state confirms that the world changed. His jet ski trip in the waters of the Brégançon Fort (Var), in the heart of summer, castigated by environmental defenders, does not prevent it from drawing a CAP which is above all ecological, as He had promised it from Marseille, in the interwar side of the presidential election.

Witness the invitation made to Valérie Masson-Delmotte, member of the Intergovernmental Experts Group on Climate Evolution (IPCC), which has alerted for decades about global warming. She intervened Wednesday to ensure the awareness of all; And it would have put “a good shock” to the members of the government, reports one of them.

The ecological planning site remains blurred

But the words and the awakening of consciences must now give way to acts. For the time being, the ecological planning site remains vague. The energy sobriety plan, mentioned for several weeks, will only be revealed in the fall. And ecological radicality advocated by the Prime Minister must still materialize.

“There is a story problem,” observes Barbara Pompili, former Minister of Ecological Transition. “There is a whole alchemy to find to sound general mobilization by combining sobriety, decarbonation of the economy, the development of renewable energies without forgetting the questions of purchasing power. Emmanuel Macron, like the members of the Executive, are afraid of the misstep which could set fire to the powders, “presumes the deputy for the Somme, a member in common, a party embodying the left wing of the majority.

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