The 2023 budget of the Ministry of Overseas Territories is up by 300 million euros compared to 2022 (+11%), reaching 2.4 billion euros in budget appropriations, with in particular an increase in appropriations for the service suitable military, according to the ministry.
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The adapted military service (SMA), which each year allows several thousand disadvantaged young people from overseas to get back on track and train for a job under the leadership of the military, has seen its budget increase by 30 million euros, to 270 million. It is a question of generalizing the extension of the average duration of reception of these young ultramarines – men and women, aged 18 to 25 – to strengthen their basic skills and professional skills, and to promote the reception of mothers celibates, assures the ministry. The creation of new companies in Polynesia (Hao) and Mayotte continues.
10 million euros for engineering support
For the financing of structuring investments, the Ministry of Overseas will extend in 2023 the convergence and transformation contracts with the communities, which expire in 2022, for 190 million euros. At the same time, the budget provides 10 million euros for support for engineering, essential support allowing the realization of projects in the territories. For “respond to day-to-day concerns” of the Ultramarines the ministry plans in particular “an exceptional envelope of 10 million eurosto support the joint union for water and sanitation in Guadeloupe,in return for compliance with operational and financial commitments».
The budget includes a contribution of 3.5 million euros to support the creation, in each of the four territories concerned, of a “anti-sargassum public serviceto manage the collection of these layers of seaweed that wash up on the coasts of the French West Indies. This concerns Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Also listed are 40 million euros.to restore room for maneuver to the local authority of Guyana, in compliance with the conditions provided for in the structural agreement signed between the authority and the State».
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The ministry’s draft budget amounts to 2.9 billion in commitment authorizations – the new expenditures that the ministry can make each year. It only represents a portion of total State expenditure in Overseas France, which will amount to 21.7 billion euros in payment appropriations in 2023, compared to 21.2 billion the previous year.
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