(POOL/AFP/Ludovic MARIN)
Michel Barnier will make his first trip as Prime Minister to a Paris hospital on Saturday, “to listen” to caregivers and hospital staff, his entourage announced.
Mr Barnier will go to Necker Hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris in the afternoon, where he will take part in a round table with health personnel, a subject that is dear to him.
The new head of government, who is in the process of putting together his team, stressed on TF1 on Friday the “immense need” for public services, one of his priorities, by mentioning health and housing.
In his new, very precarious position at Matignon, since he is deprived of an absolute majority in the National Assembly, he is banking on his ability to “negotiate”, to “bring people together” and to “listen to them”.
He will answer questions from the press at the end of his visit.
Michel Barnier also wanted on Friday to “open the debate” for an “improvement” of the controversial pension reform “for the most vulnerable people”, but without “calling everything into question” and by “respecting the budgetary framework”, which is particularly constrained given the scale of the public deficit.
The French Public Hospitals Federation (FHF) is calling for a 6% increase in the financial envelope allocated to public and private hospitals in the next Social Security budget (PLFSS 2025) by 2025, or 6.3 billion euros, it said on Tuesday.
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