It is a document which intends to carry out its revolution of figures to become a weapon of mass communication for the nationalists. A report establishing the effects of fiscal and political autonomy on economic performance, social and environmental indicators of well-being, must be presented Thursday, July 28 in session to the advisers of the Island Hemicycle.
These forty-five pages of a study commissioned by the Presidency of the Assembly of Corsica, carried out by the firm Kyrn’Economics, which The world was able to consult, analyze and compile fifty-three academic research works in eighty countries that have experienced decentralization within the European Union, such as the Spanish and Italian regions and, beyond, in the countries of the Organization of economic cooperation and development (OECD) or emerging countries.
This contribution comes at a time when a cycle of discussions, between the Ministry of the Interior and Corsica, which could lead to an institutional development, has just opened on July 21, five years after the Girondin pact promised by the candidate Emmanuel Macron, in 2017, and four months after the riots linked to the fatal attack on Yvan Colonna in detention.
“By changing the focus, we want to get out of the political posture which consists in agitating the fetish of autonomy without economic and social content, to say that it does not fill the fridge”assures Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis (autonomist), the president of the Assembly of Corsica who will present the text.
“Feeding the debate”
The lever of this study is primarily theoretical. “Development policies that are sensitive to particular regional or local needs for infrastructure and even human capital are likely to be more effective in promoting economic growth than centralized policies that largely ignore these geographic differences”says the report, quoting extensively An Essay on Fiscal Federalism (1999), by the American economist Wallace E. Oates, theoretician of optimal decentralization. Mr. Wallace affirms among other things that the management of public services is less costly and produces effects on growth when it is not under the control of a central power but under the authority of local governments. In concrete terms, the creation in Spain of autonomous communities, which began in 1978, illustrates “a positive relationship between growth and decentralization”.
“It is not a question of borrowing what has been done elsewhere, but of nurturing the debate and then adapting it, if necessary”says M.me Maupertuis. One of the demands of the nationalist majority is the advent of a derogatory tax status, a measure supposed to establish “autonomy of right and full exercise”, wanted by Gilles Simeoni, the president of the executive council of Corsica.
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