Emmanuel Macron asked them to block his day. This Wednesday, the Head of State will meet with ministers at the Elysee Palace for a long-announced government seminar. It must be said that he expects a lot: the meeting must specify the main orientations of the executive and his agenda for the coming weeks. Above all, the event should serve to enlighten ministers on major ecological issues, at the end of a calamitously hot and dry summer, while energy threats mount.
Deployments, actors, themes but also criticism around a formula that the opposition judges harshly: BFMTV.com takes stock of this seminar day for the government.
a busy schedule
Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne saw things in a big way. Thus, the 42 full-time ministers, delegates and secretaries of state were invited to participate in this back-to-school seminar. There are even members that the protocol does not necessarily call to attend the Council of Ministers regularly. Therefore, the crowds led to push the walls. Or rather to find others. For once, the executive team will not meet at the Salon Murat but at the Salle des Fêtes de l’Élysée.
As for the schedule, it’s tight to say the least. In the morning, the Government will have to debate the “great fiscal and budgetary challenges of the five-year period”, “the commitment to full employment”, and resolve “its action in the face of the climate challenge”. Each of its articles carries with it the examination of one of the great bills to come. Thus, it will be the reform of unemployment insurance, a text on security, the bill on finances, and the device on the acceleration of the deployment of renewable energies.
Because ecology stands out as the heart of this Wednesday’s seminar. The Government must not only take advantage of the day to perfect its knowledge of current environmental issues and give initial responses, but it will also try to reconcile the fight against this climate change and the defense of purchasing power, a specific translation calls for sobriety that the President of the Republic and its Prime Minister have multiplied in recent days.
The detailed schedule
The schedule for the day was detailed. At the end of the Council of Ministers itself, which traditionally takes place from 10 a.m., and the examination of the various bills, the forty participants must give way to a newcomer: the climatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte. She is a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, which alerts report after report of rising ecological threats and campaigns for ambitious policies to counter them.
The climatologist is expected in the afternoon and will give a 30-minute presentation to the audience. The interested party has already delivered the color, if not the background, of her speech last Saturday to West of France.
“We have our backs against the wall: if we don’t act, we will only suffer, crisis after crisis,” he explains.
A speech viewed with favor by the associative actors, led by Laurence Tubiana, director of the European Climate Foundation at franceinfo this Wednesday morning. “In these thirty minutes, Valérie Masson-Delmotte (…) can convince them that they should not be afraid,” he launched, before postulating that public opinion was mature, relying on a survey commissioned by his foundation, reinforcing the pressure around the government: “We see that 62% of the French think that the government is too slow to invest in renewable energies and seven out of ten French say that they are in favor of accelerating the transition, in particular in the electorate of Emmanuel Macron” .
The ministers will then take turns one by one, as the newspaper noted here. the echoes, to reveal the actions planned by his own ministry in this collective effort in favor of the fight against global warming. Finally, Elisabeth Borne must close the day with a press conference at 6 pm
subject of much criticism
If the executive seeks to set a date for the immediate future through this seminar, the system does not find favor with everyone. The opposition has already expressed its reservations or its criticisms, and they are of various kinds. Laurent Jacobelli, RN deputy elected in Moselle and spokesman for his party, quoted here by West of Franceaccused Emmanuel Macron of doing too much:
“He always says that the apocalypse is coming tomorrow, and since the apocalypse doesn’t come, he explains that it’s because of him.”
Yannick Jadot, MEP and leader of Europe Écologie-Les Verts has a completely different view. This Wednesday, on franceinfo, he denounced an executive too unwilling on ecological matters, and even timid: “The government’s plan for the measures is to apply the law. The temperature law-19 ° C-the law of the terraces heated …”. Furthermore, he confided that he expects more stability:
“We change the rules every two years. This means that those who invest are always in difficulty.”
The day before, on the set of the France 5 program Up to youthe engineer committed to the fight against global warming and himself a member of the Superior Council for Climate, Jean-Marc Jancovici, for his part, made fun of the ridiculous aspect of the company according to him: “The members of the government must be trained I had proposed 20 hours, and it was the low heel, this is a seminar where they will train for one hour and talk to the media for three hours.
“They have to go back to school! Being a minister doesn’t make you competent in subjects you didn’t see during your studies,” he continued.
Two days away from an Energy Defense Council
This ecological meeting, after this summer of heat waves and fires that the Minister for the Energy Transition described as “the coolest” of the next twenty years according to forecasts, is however all the more important as tensions increase due to the gas and electricity due to developments in the Russian war in Ukraine.
On Friday, the Elysée will also organize a new type of Defense Council, focused exclusively on this issue. Some options are already on the table, according to information from our antenna, such as a voltage drop in the network, from 230 to 220 volts. An Energy Defense Council to be held this time in a smaller committee.
Source: BFM TV
