Is a peaceful debate on the highways possible in France?
It still seems like an impossible mission.
The Senate published on Friday a voluminous report summarizing the work, carried out by centrist Vincent Delahaye, of the commission of inquiry which looked into the motorway concessions.
News which immediately, and even before any reading of the 320 pages of the report, provoked Pavlovian reactions denouncing a
"jackpot"
or a
"hold-up"
.
As Olivier Babeau notes in the preamble of a study published by the Sapiens Institute on Thursday,
“fifteen years after the government's decision to“ privatize the highways ”, the question of the concession network remains passionate”
.
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Has the state killed the goose that lays the golden eggs by privatizing the highways?
Responses from a Senate report
Senators heard from numerous witnesses, from Dominique de Villepin to Élisabeth Borne
(our July 21 editions).
Hearings which showed that the right remains fractured on the question of the privatization of 2005-2006, just like the left on the circumstances of the renegotiation of 2015. Some
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