The year 2020 and its share of "
hassles"
- as Jean Castex likes to say - is not yet over, the president has just recovered from the coronavirus that the executive is heading for the start of the school year.
Objective: to initiate a dynamic from the beginning of January and try to turn the page of this annus horribilis.
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For the last full year of his five-year term, Emmanuel Macron still has to arbitrate on his priorities and set the course until 2022: relaunch the pension dossier, even at a minimum, at the risk of pointing the country?
Reopen the work of institutional reform by drawing full proportional?
Maintain the old age and autonomy law despite the state of public finances?
"The choice of reforms is suspended until the crisis is behind us,"
tempers Gabriel Attal, government spokesman.
Already 3,000 requests on MaPrimeRénov ', the youth plan is bearing fruit, there will be more apprentices in 2020 than in 2019
Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson
"2021 will be based on four pillars: vaccination, economic recovery, the law on republican principles, the Citizen's Convention for the climate,"
says the deputy La République en Marche Sacha Houlié.
While waiting for the vaccine doses and the examination of bills in Parliament, it is on the second point that the government intends to focus.
Because the announcement of the envelope of 100 billion euros over two years, in September, had been largely eclipsed by the second wave of the epidemic.
“The recovery plan is working very well, but we do not talk about it enough,
deplores Gabriel Attal.
Already 3000 requests on MaPrimeRénov ', the youth plan is bearing fruit, there will be more apprentices in 2020 than in 2019. ”
Intensify communication
On Monday, the day of the last Council of Ministers of the year, the Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, will visit a company in Pas-de-Calais, for a trip devoted to the implementation of the revival.
On Saturday 12 December, the ministers of Bercy and their directors of administration indeed planned during a seminar to increase the number of visits and intensify communication around the deployment of the recovery plan, which aims to return to a level of 2022. activity similar to the pre-crisis one.
“There are already a lot of investment decisions, 600 projects launched, if only in the industry.
We will pound on that in January-February, show, meet the companies where things are happening
,
”
says a minister.
And the whole government is called on to wet the shirt, depending on its sector: decarbonization for Barbara Pompili (ecological transition), construction for Emmanuelle Wargon (Housing), logistics for Jean-Baptiste Djebarri (Transport), relocation in the field of Health for Frédérique Vidal (Research) ...
"We manage to have objects on all subjects",
says a member of the executive.
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The government therefore intends to breathe a wind of optimism, at a time when the envelope dedicated to "whatever the cost" will gradually decrease.
And so the economic consequences of the crisis on unemployment, bankruptcies or social plans make the headlines.
"So far, we have united, but the hardest part is in front of us
, confides in a small committee a heavyweight of the government, which expects a
" period of decantation "
of the economy, between spring and next summer .
"And when we go to remove the cover, I don't know what we will find out."
Hence the obsession to make
“new value chains”
thrive
,
to encourage companies to invest, in order to limit social damage as much as possible.
Provided that the epidemic does not come, once again, to disrupt the plans of the government.
