the politics of the long run and the politics of solidarity » | EUROtoday

En a single decree, revealed on February 22 Official Journal of the French Republicthe federal government has simply canceled precisely 10 billion euros of spending dedication authorization for the 12 months 2024. We keep in mind that the 2023 pension reform aimed to launch roughly the identical quantity, however by 2030. This easy assertion exhibits the shock represented by this unilateral, brutal and blind resolution.

It is troublesome, at this stage, to measure all of its results when it comes to decreasing public employment, since, in lots of circumstances, the restrictions concern State operators who might be left to take action. the soiled work. Among the recognized data, bloodletting would, for instance, concern round 5,000 jobs in training, with out together with academic assistants and people accompanying college students with disabilities.

In distinction, the nationwide gendarmerie and the police will not be dropping any jobs. Despite the communication from the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, all ministries will not be in the identical boat.

Examining the packages most affected by this decree makes it attainable to learn the 2 precedence targets, which focus at the least two thirds of those “savings”: the coverage of the long run and the solidarity coverage. I group collectively beneath the expression “politics of the future” ecology, but additionally training, analysis and youth.

A double context

While these domains are already in arrears, at the least 3.92 billion euros are instantly withdrawn from them, or virtually 40% of the cancellations. As for the solidarity coverage, that’s to say support to the unemployed, the poor, folks with disabilities, the poorly housed, residents of working-class neighborhoods, foreigners (from right here and there -low) and much away (abroad), it’s disadvantaged of two.73 billion euros, in a single day.

These drastic cuts within the state price range happen in a twin context. Firstly, that of a current reestablishment at European degree of the steadiness and development pact, the item of which, for the reason that finish of the Nineties, has been the management of public debt and the deficit. Despite the Covid parenthesis, this pact has simply been prolonged with barely refined guidelines, as arbitrary as they’re out of date within the face of local weather and biodiversity points.

Then, the decree follows a downward revision of development forecasts in France, with the anticipated consequence of a rise in tax revenues. As if it have been an implacable syllogism, the federal government deduced the need of this austerity coverage.

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