No credit will be dedicated to a possible food check in the 2023 budget, Bercy told AFP on Monday, although the reflection on this aid promised by Emmanuel Macron will continue, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
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There will be no budget line for the food check in the PLF (finance bill) 2023
", we learned Monday from the Ministry of the Economy.
A headache for the executive, the food check was initially intended to allow low-income households to buy fresh and local products, but given the complexity of the system, the government announced in June that it would merge into an "
inflation check
" , simpler, distributed at the start of the school year.
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Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne had however specified at the same time that the reflection would continue on a food check more targeted on "
quality
" and "
organic
" products, a version ardently defended by the agricultural unions who would also like it to be virtuous for agricultural production. .
In an interview Monday on LCI, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire made no allusion to this track.
The executive has failed "
to build a system that is operational, efficient, fast
" and "
which does not benefit foreign products, imported products
", he simply noted.
Without a further word.
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The idea is not rejected
," argued the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, Monday morning on the antenna of Sud Radio.
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We are working on it with Jean-Christophe Combe (Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities, Editor's note), since it is rather a question of solidarity
", he said.
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It is at the budgetary moment that things will begin to settle
” but it remains to be seen “
what type of products, what type of public, what distribution circuit
”, continued the Minister.
