Fruit of a reflection undertaken at the end of 2019, the prospective institution attached to Matignon proposes the creation of an administration responsible for coherent public policies and to animate the public, crucial debate to guarantee the character “Socially and democratically sustainable “of decisions taken.
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reconcile “end of the world and end of the month”? In the aftermath of the “yellow vests” crisis, France Strategy took this refrain seriously, which summarizes the difficulty in piloting the ecological transition, while making it socially and democratically acceptable. At the end of 2019, the prospective institution attached to Matignon was self -propelled with this thorny question and sought to brush the portrait of an instance likely to set the transition to music and to cohabit the long -term requirements and the imperatives of day. The result of his work, a 250 -page report published on Sunday May 8, takes on a singular importance, in terms of recent statements by Emmanuel Macron, ensuring ecological planning a priority of his second mandate.
In its report, France Strategy recommends a deep and ambitious reorganization of the cogs of the State, with the creation of a new administration, backed by the services of the Prime Minister. This would be devolved to plan the transition, to put all public policies in coherence with it, and to animate the public debate to identify the elements of consensus or, on the contrary, of discord. A crucial aspect to guarantee the “socially and democratically sustainable” character of the measures taken, according to the expression of Hélène Garner, one of the coordinators of the report.
For two years, the rapporteurs have interviewed many qualified personalities and have collected hundreds of contributions from economists, political scientists and sociologists, historians, philosophers, jurists, elected officials, social partners, etc “This work started from a strong idea,” says Johanna Barasz, coordinator of the report. Although in the face of vital issues that are the disruption of the climate, the collapse of biodiversity, the worsening of pollution or the increase Inequalities, the State is not equipped to respond in a coherent way to these challenges, while taking into account the socio-economic balances of the present. “And this, all the less since public action faces a distrust increasingly significant.
“A new repository”
“We can no longer govern as before, specifies Hélène Garner, another coordinator of the report. We have tried to explore the factory of public policies to understand why we cannot meet the long -term issues, to identify All the brakes on taking into account the challenges of sustainability. We have tried to imagine what a new repository could be to orchestrate public policies. “
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