2023-12-10 20:20:30
Emmanuel Macron presents the “France 2030” investment plan on December 10. François BOUCHON/Le Figaro
Time.news – Since 2017, Emmanuel Macron has continued to promise decentralization. And yet, his entire policy seems aimed at emptying of its substance the principle of free administration of local authorities.
How to make the cost of the energy transition acceptable? The leaders of democracies no longer have the slightest idea. After the “yellow vest” revolt in 2018, following an increase in the carbon tax, the French executive took care to stifle any new expression of anger under checks and subsidies. Governments more attentive to their budgetary balance, and therefore less generous with their population, have recently been swept aside by opposition openly hostile to their ecological ambitions, such as the Dutchman Geert Wilders or, a year ago, in Italy, Giorgia Meloni.
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To move forward despite everything, in these shifting sands, Matignon has been trying for several weeks to implement a new method with local elected officials: coercion. The latter were asked to launch, under the aegis of the general secretariat for ecological planning, “regional COPs”. This involves rolling out the national ecological transition objectives region by region…
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