Emmanuel Macron was the exceptional guest of the 20 hours newspaper of TF1 this Tuesday evening. The president had first of all come to provide after-sales service for the agreement on a common European debt to deal with the Covid-19 crisis, which was fought hard last night. But the tenant of the Elysee took the opportunity to make a new grand oral in front of the French on several topical issues. Review.
The free mask
The French taxpayer is not intended to pay for masks, Emmanuel Macron estimated Tuesday, assuring that those who cannot buy them will be "helped" since the wearing of a mask has become compulsory in closed public places.
“The State - and the French taxpayer - is not intended to pay for masks […] for everyone, all the time. So I think it must remain a social policy, ”declared the President of the Republic on TF1. Those who cannot afford to buy it will be "helped", he added, in response to the voices that have been raised in recent days to ask for free.
“On the other hand, our role, we French, French and with Europeans, is to secure in the coming period stocks, production, whether it is consumer masks, masks for our caregivers, but also respirators, pharmaceutical products that we need and our ability to produce a vaccine, ”continued Emmanuel Macron. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire did not rule out the idea on Tuesday of helping low-income households to buy the necessary masks.
Incivilities
Emmanuel Macron also assured Tuesday that he would be "intractable" on incivility with regard in particular to the police and firefighters so that they do not become "a habit". "We cannot accept and I will not accept in our country that these incivilities become a habit: daily security is what guarantees public order, republican order, that is to say true freedom in our society and therefore on this point, we will be intractable ”, declared the President of the Republic.
“I have always said it and I will say it again firmly, it is zero tolerance. Anyone who justly carries the republican authority, anyone who belongs to our internal security forces or who acts to serve, firefighters, also caregivers [...] deserves respect and we will not tolerate any deviation, ”added the head of the 'State.
The European recovery plan
The agreement reached on the recovery plan is for the European Union "the most important moment since the creation of the euro", also declared Emmanuel Macron, a few hours after the end of the Brussels summit, in a " autosatisfecit ”noticed. This agreement amounting to 750 billion euros, concluded Tuesday at dawn, is the fruit of "three years of work between France and Germany", he added.
"I want our fellow citizens to understand the importance of what happened during these four days and four nights", insisted the Head of State. “This is the project on which the French trusted me, which I presented in September 2017 at La Sorbonne. We fought […] This is the most important moment in the life of our Europe since the creation of the euro ”, which entered into circulation on 1 January 2002.
Emmanuel Macron confirmed that France would receive “40 billion euros on this recovery plan” and will be “the 3rd beneficiary in Europe”, after Italy and Spain. This "corresponds to 40% of the expenditure" of the French recovery plan estimated at 100 billion, which "means that this money will come from Europe on our budget without our needing to finance it, neither by our own debt nor by our taxes ”, he detailed.
The French recovery plan
The French recovery plan, which will be presented on August 24, will be used to "finance the employment of young people", "our small and medium-sized enterprises, our craftsmen, our traders", "tourism but also the thermal renovation of buildings", “Hydrogen, electric batteries… anything that will allow us to create jobs”, he enumerated. The Head of State affirmed that "it is not the French taxpayer" who "will pay" the recovery plan, "because we are committed to creating new own resources".
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It is, he explained, "to be able, at European level, to levy a tax on large companies and international actors who do not play the game of our policies". To the tax on plastic, “a first clean resource”, he wants to add “a digital tax for the major international digital players who today do not pay taxes”.