Spend, spend, spend .... For French growth to rebound after the appalling year 2020, it is urgent that the recovery plan and its 100 billion euros of budgetary credits over two years quickly bear fruit.
To this end, the State must find projects consistent with its objectives of greening the economy, modernization of the productive fabric ... To facilitate this selection, contracts between the State and the regions have been put in place. .
This Tuesday morning, Jean Castex thus goes to Toulon to sign the first regional stimulus agreement which will decline the joint financial commitments of the State and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region.
On the menu, 5.1 billion euros in funding: 3.4 billion under the new generation of State-Region plan contracts (CPER) over seven years and 1.7 billion specific to the recovery plan in 2021 and 2022.
The recovery part is co-financed in equal parts by the region and the State.
A few projects such as soundproofing work around the Aix-Marseille motorway or the redevelopment of the Tour Fondue port in Hyères have already been selected.
Regional-State co-management
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We are in deliberation with ten of the thirteen regions," we
advance in Matignon.
Future signatures should take place quickly
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These local contracts set to music the more global agreement, signed at the end of September, between the State and Regions of France on the "co-piloting" of the territorialization of the recovery plan, itself being integrated into the method agreement. sealed last July on the finances of the regions.
In total, of the 100 billion of the recovery plan, at least 16 billion will have to be spent at the local level.
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Of these 16 billion arrows on the territories, 8 billion were distributed among the regional prefects and 8 will come to supplement the calls for projects, expressions of interest ...
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