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Prime Minister, François Bayrou (Standing), accompanied by several of his ministers, Yannick Neuder (Health), Valérie Létard (housing), François Rebsamen (regional planning and decentralization), Elisabeth Borne (National Education), François-Noël Buffet (to the Minister of the Interior) and Amélie de Montchalin (public accounts), during the interministerial committee of cities in Montpellier, June 6 2025.

After being postponed twice, the Interministerial Committee of Cities (CIV) lastly held on Friday June 6, in Montpellier, below the aegis of the top of presidency, François Bayrou, surrounded by eight ministers protecting the areas of regional planning and decentralization, metropolis, housing, nationwide training, inside, well being, public and commerce accounts. A gathering extremely anticipated by the actors of town coverage throughout which the State reveals its motion in favor of the 1,609 precedence districts (abroad together with) for the approaching years. Around forty measures centered in three “Priorities” have been offered: youth, public tranquility and financial growth. This CIV 2025 comes lower than two years after the earlier one, which had taken place in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines), and tried then “Without breath” by variety of elected officers and associations.

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They hoped for this version. Three months earlier, seven associations of elected officers gathered in Epinay-sous-Sénart (Essonne) to launch the “Call of Epinay” and attempt to register these territories on the political agenda, recalling the urgency to behave to stem the impoverishment of their six million inhabitants and the deterioration of their residing situations. The Minister of the City delegate, Juliette Méadel, had then promised “A new impulse”. “Without the call of Epinay, this CIV would not take place, today, it has the merit of existing, even if, in the current context of budgetary constraint, it is a Civ of crisis, we are lucid”feedback Philippe Rio, communist mayor of Grigny (Essonne), who hoped, “Faced with a climate of division and instrumentalization of French fractures”a “Very strong speech of the Prime Minister on republican fraternity and national reconciliation”.

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