2023-07-12 20:31:40
It was eagerly awaited by overseas elected officials. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will convene an interministerial committee for the Overseas Territories (CIOM) on Tuesday, which should make it possible to make the action of overseas communities more effective by enacting a certain number of legislative or regulatory measures.
In May 2022, the presidents of the regions of Guadeloupe, Réunion, Mayotte, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Guyana, had signed the “call from Fort-de-France”, asking to meet the president to discuss “a profound change policies” to help develop their territories stricken by poverty, and solutions to problems specific to French people overseas, which could go as far as constitutional reform.
“tailor-made solutions”
At the end of a meeting in September with some fifty elected officials from communities in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Emmanuel Macron had indicated that he intended to give these communities “the room for action necessary to the invention of tailor-made solutions” to the problems of security and high cost of living, which affect their territories.
“The proactive approach undertaken by the government and elected officials in the coming weeks will have the task of identifying the legislative and regulatory measures, both national and local, likely to make the action of local authorities more effective, while respecting the skills of each and taking into account the specificities of each territory”. “A roadmap on a timetable, concrete actions and investments by territory will be built on this basis”, had underlined the Elysée.
All the actors have therefore been called upon to collaborate in the development of a first series of decisions which must be recorded during this Ciom, which was to take place within six months, but whose date has been postponed several times.
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, indicated that he was going to propose an “in-depth” reform of the dock dues, tariff protection on products imported into the overseas territories, during this Ciom.
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