“Green Fund”: government gives wages before start of school year

A 1.5 billion envelope will be devoted to the “ecological transition” of communities. Elisabeth borne “does not close the door” to a tax on superprofits, but prefers incentives to him.

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The summer truce is indeed finished. After a month of July marked by the adoption – not without difficulty – of the “package power package” in the National Assembly, and short vacation, the government is again hard. During the Council of Ministers of Back to school, Wednesday August 24, Emmanuel Macron had planted the decor, evoking “the end of abundance” and “the end of carelessness” which will make necessary “efforts”, even “of sacrifices “. In an interview to the Parisian on Sunday August 28, Elisabeth Borne, she chose a resolutely pragmatic posture, by giving details on the major sites that await the executive in the coming weeks.

While summer was marked by scorching temperatures, the Prime Minister was to speak on Monday at the Medef summer university on the subject of the climate. It announced the establishment of a “green fund for communities”. With 1.5 billion euros, it will have to “help them in accelerating their ecological transition,” said the host of Matignon. An envelope is already registered in the menu of the finance bill (PLF) 2023, which must be presented at the end of September. “This fund is already provided in the budget of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, explains the entourage of M me terminal. In our approach, ecological planning must be deployed via the territories, no High, in order to go faster by abundant local initiatives. Many of the ecological transition policies depend on local authorities by regional planning, the renovation of buildings, the renaturation of urban centers to fight against the islets of heat, Etc. “Works that are both diverse and precise, which are reminiscent of those on which the government had chosen to focus, already, in the post-crisis recovery plan of COVID-19, at the end of 2020.

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On the Front of the Energy Crisis, another burning file given the repercussions of the war in Ukraine, the head of the government promised that the executive would amortize “the increases” of the energy prices after the end of Price shield, in December, thanks to “specific provisions” for “more fragile”. The refocusing of aid to those who need it most of it is part of the debates that will agitate Parliament, from October, during budgetary discussions. Between compensation to businesses and drop in taxes, the price shield will cost more than 20 billion euros to public finances this year. “We will contain the increases in energy prices,” also assured Gabriel Attal, invited Sunday of the “Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI”. But the Minister Delegate in charge of public accounts also called for “preparing for tensions”.

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