PARIS (AFP) – Francois Hollande on Wednesday launched a media offensive against-in a high-risk return marked by economic conditions deteriorated sharply, detailing a number of initiatives consistent with the direction he had set, even shoving again its majority.
Tax Incentives for the smaller, regulated professions homes, stores open on Sunday, reducing the number of MPs, International … The head of the state has chosen the first day of the Council of Ministers after the short summer break to express in the columns of the World, until his fourth press conference in mid-September.
It reaffirms the “cap” the pact of responsibility and excludes “any sculling or zigzag (which) would make incomprehensible our policy and would not produce results.” Three days after the Prime Minister about his Manuel Valls, who is “out of the question” for his government to change policy, the head of the State intends to “accelerate reforms” and “go faster and further”
Faced with the deteriorating economic conditions, including zero growth in the first half, he claims not to have “lost a moment” but insisted: “Credibility is not to stay still, it is to adapt to the circumstances, but also to remain consistent “
-. Making tax” fairer “-
First decisions towards the employees more modest. measures to compensate for the censorship by the Constitutional Council of the essence of the ‘solidarity’ Pact responsibility
Francois Hollande and provides “two major reforms”, one for “making fairer and simpler Schedule of the Income Tax Act including for the first layer, that is to say to the taxpayers and modest means. ” The other is to merge “the premium for employment and RSA activity to promote the resumption of work and improve employee compensation precarious.”
Manuel Valls will “in the coming days” of ” clarifications “on these measures, which will be in the Finance Bill, said the spokesman of the government.
The Head of State also confirmed the controversial reform of regulated professions announced by Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Economy, which will be in September of a “bill on purchasing power.” This text will also adapt “regulations on shop opening on Sundays,” an equally controversial issue
-. No “face to face” with Berlin –
Francois Hollande relies instead on employers and unions to reach an agreement on social levels, which increase corporate bonds when their numbers increase, risk, according to some, to slow hiring. “My method is negotiations,” he argues, but cautioned that “the Government will take the Parliament” absence of agreement between the social partners.
Faced with the discontent in the ranks Socialists, he called for the cohesion of the majority, warning that in 2017, the “judgment will be both focused on the president, the government and the majority.” “Let them stay united,” he urges a week of the summer school of the PS in La Rochelle.
“The debate can not bounce off each text” still warns François Hollande while questions remain about the budget vote in 2015 by MPs “slingers.”
The Head of State reaffirmed its intention to introduce an element of proportional representation in the election of deputies, one of his campaign promises. “I am ready if a majority can agree on this direction” with, in addition, “a reduction in the number of MPs”
In a broad overview of the international situation that he considers “the most serious” since 2001, Francois Hollande also announced that it will soon offer “a conference on security in Iraq and the fight against the Islamic state.”
When asked about the end of inadmissibility raised by Germany to its calls for a reorientation of European policies in support of growth and employment, it responds with the refusal of a “face to face” with Berlin.
“This is the European Union”, he argues, claiming once again that “all the flexibilities provided by the treaties in exceptional circumstances” are exploited in order to “adapt” the pace of reduction deficits. They admitted the finance minister Michel Sapin, exceed 4% of GDP in France this year, which excludes de facto return to 3% in 2015 as the country was at stake.
“Reaffirming the cap while modulating the pace, the president proposes to French persevere and come together,” welcomed the boss PS Jean-Christophe Cambadelis.
Luc Chatel, Secretary Acting General of the UMP, these statements are “not up to the seriousness of the suituation.”
M. Holland “talks actually cast from a raft, with no hope of a light wind in the sails, amid an austerity ocean, through a line by Merkel and Gattaz road” lamented the PCF.
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