The state is trying to regain control in New Caledonia.
After a month of violence around the takeover of a crucial nickel factory, the government put forward, on Monday, new proposals for ending the crisis.
Two objectives are stated: to regulate the future of the plant of the Brazilian company Vale, central in the “nickel strategy” of the archipelago;
and relaunch a stalled political process, with a view to a possible third referendum on independence by October 2022.
For the first time, the Minister of Overseas Territories has publicly outlined, subject to conditions, a State participation in the capital of the hydrometallurgical site, where 3,000 jobs are at stake. Anxious to
"reach out one last time"
, Sébastien Lecornu said he was
"ready to discuss a stronger involvement of the State in the factory"
of the southern province, in his televised greetings to the 270,000 inhabitants of the Pacific archipelago, French since 1853. This commitment is conditioned at the end
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