“Europe has also allowed a share of financing with the State for this bridge. Europe is also concrete, it is also results, it is also daily life,” declared the Prime Minister. minister in the middle of the structure spanning the Garonne, in front of a compact crowd.
At a total cost of 60 million euros, the Camélat bridge which crosses three communes – Colayrac-Saint-Cirq, Agen and Brax – contributes to opening up the north-east and south-east of the Lot-et-department. Garonne. The State provided 20 million euros, the department 16 million, and the Agen agglomeration around 25 million thanks to a loan from the EIB.
“Yes, the State is coming back”
Europe, “it’s not just standards, it’s also solutions without which our territories could not live”, he added, paying tribute to one of his predecessors at Matignon, Jean Castex , who came to launch this project in 2021 and then lay the first stone in 2022.
Like the latter, fond of traveling in the provincial “territories”, he confided that they were both “very close, very friends” and that, among his predecessors, “he is probably the one with whom I feel the most more related.”
“Yes, the State is coming back. There are still difficulties, things are still missing but we are reinvesting massively for access to public services everywhere,” he insisted. “The State must be everywhere, there cannot be white zones, lost territories, abandoned territories.”
A second national meeting Tuesday evening in Paris
“Of course in a certain number of places in France, we still lack too many things, doctors, roads, public services, but (…) the State is coming back, thanks to the 24 France services spaces that we opened in the department, with three new gendarmerie brigades” and “16 health centers opened in Lot-et-Garonne”, argued the head of government, accompanied by ministers Patrice Vergriete (Transport) and Jean-Noël Barrot (Europe).
Gabriel Attal previously wandered around the stands of the party organized for the occasion, taking many selfies, after having received farmers’ unions at the prefecture, many of whose actions began in January in this department.
Pressed by President Emmanuel Macron to get more involved in the European campaign, Gabriel Attal is making more trips, such as the whelk fair in Pirou in the Manche last Saturday, and the May 1st fair in Beaugency (Loiret) on Wednesday. Before supporting the majority candidate Valérie Hayer during a second national meeting Tuesday evening in Paris.