The speech will be expected by millions of French people, who are waiting to know what their bills will look like next year.
On Wednesday September 14, at 3:30 p.m., the Prime Minister will hold a press conference “
on the energy situation
” in France.
Accompanied by her ministers Bruno Le Maire and Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Élisabeth Borne "
will present the state of the country's energy situation and the measures to protect the French
".
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The boss of the majority should take this opportunity to come back to the tariff shield, which reduces the note for homes like tricolor companies.
It should also announce a price increase next year, while they have been frozen for many months.
A decision justified by the budgetary argument, brandished Monday by the head of Bercy: "
There will still be, on January 1, 2023, a contained increase in gas and electricity prices
", because it "
would be irresponsible to do weigh
” the explosion of bills only on the State, explained Bruno Le Maire, on LCI.
"
At the end of the day, inflation is a burden that must be equitably shared
" between the state, households and businesses, he added afterwards.
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Elisabeth Borne will speak as France prepares to go through a winter that is, to say the least, perilous and the various sectors are multiplying sobriety plans to reduce their energy consumption.
On Tuesday, EDF announced that it expected difficulties until 2024, also revising its production outlook for 2022 downwards. The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, for her part announced this week a “
national consultation
”, from October to January, on the future French strategy on energy and climate.
The day should be rich in lessons on the months to come: the electricity network operator, RTE, will present this morning, at 10 a.m., its outlook for the winter, and its counterpart in charge of gas, GRTGaz, will present its own in the afternoon, at 2 p.m.
The Prime Minister's press conference is a continuation of these presentations.
Several hearings of energy players are also scheduled today in the National Assembly and the Senate, including that of the CEO of EDF, at 11 a.m., and that of the chairman of the executive board of RTE, at 3 p.m.
In Brussels, the boss of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will hold her traditional speech at 9 a.m. on the state of the European Union.
The opportunity for her to return to the war in Ukraine and its consequences, by presenting the emergency measures that the European executive is putting on the table to protect households and businesses in the face of the energy crisis.
Here too, hundreds of millions of citizens will be affected.
