Emmanuel Macron had promised a last useful year, it already has the false air of a campaign economic program. Half of the speech given by the Head of State on the evening of Monday July 12 was, in fact, devoted to his balance sheet and the future of the economy – to the “France of 2030”. “The summer of the mobilization for the vaccine will also be the summer of the relaunch”, he hammered.
In addition to the pension reform, postponed to another date “As long as the epidemic is not under control”, the Head of State announced, for his last nine months, a range of measures targeting more or less all audiences: young people, employees, the unemployed, retirees, the disabled, businesses or industry.
Objective: to show, again and again, that the health crisis does not undermine its will to reform or to act. Nor his optimism: the deterioration of the health situation is not, for him, likely to compromise growth this year, which he estimates at 6% for 2021, or one point more than the forecasts of the Ministry of economy. “While what worries the French is whether they will go on vacation, Emmanuel Macron sends a message that goes beyond the menu of the last year, explains Jérôme Fourquet, director of the opinion department at IFOP. He does not want to let it be said that he is on a horizon with a small focal length where he would manage the health situation by the week because of the variant. “
No tax increase
The president thus evoked both new support measures for youth, a ” investment plan “ targeting digital, green industries or biotechnologies, but also a “Massive plan for the training and re-qualification of the long-term unemployed”, measures for “Simplify” and “Reform the state”, and “Enhanced support” for dependent elderly people. Without giving more details, other than the repeated promise that taxes will not increase.
One of the most anticipated measures was undoubtedly that targeting unemployed and untrained young people, whose situation has worsened with the crisis, who should thus benefit from a “Engagement income”, founded “On a logic of duties and rights”, he specified. A device that is in line with the youth guarantee, this insertion income of nearly 500 euros paid to young people aged 16 to 25 most in difficulty in return for training. In the fall of 2020, the government had already extended the beneficiaries to 200,000 young people, but it has been thinking since to generalize it.
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