Faced with the outbreak of energy prices, the government has chosen to open budget valves again to support households and businesses in 2023.
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Will the energy crisis end up costing public finances as much as that of COVVID? Anticipating a continuation of the outbreak of energy prices, the government, wishing to show its ability to “protect” the French portfolio, has chosen to open budget valves again to support households and businesses in 2023. Wednesday, September 14, Elisabeth Borne announced an envelope of 45 billion euros, almost equivalent to the money spent since fall 2021 for all support measures for purchasing power – gas, electricity, petrol, revaluation Social minima…
“Today, without action of the government, the prices of gas and electricity for households would be multiplied by 2.2 at the beginning of next year, justified the Prime Minister on the occasion of A press conference. To avoid these increases which are not sustainable, we will extend, in 2023, the mechanism of the “tariff shield” for all households, for condominiums, social housing, small businesses and the smallest municipalities . “
a new” at the same time “
The executive, who still hoped this summer to target his aids to the most modest to drastically reduce the cost, is again forced to give it up for 2023. Otherwise, he saw the calibration of ” Price shield “, which, for a year, has limited to 4 % the rise in electricity prices for households and completely blocks those of gas, the State compensating for the difference. This device will therefore be extended next year, but under less favorable conditions for households. Objective: “continue to respond to concerns”, while “taking care not to dig” debt, and to “target our devices”, summed up the tenant of Matignon. A new “at the same time”, as complex to formulate as it is concretized.
“We have to find a balance, admits Aurore Bergé, the president of the Renaissance group to the National Assembly, because we have protected the French a lot for two years. As soon as there is a problem, it is towards ‘State that we turn. The Prime Minister has also pleaded for stabilizers to be more at European level. “
With the “price shield”, the rise in gas and electricity prices will be limited to 15 % for the French, from January and February 2023 respectively. “15 % instead of 120 %”, recalled Elisabeth Borne. Or, she said, an average increase in the order of 25 euros per month for households who heat the gas, against 200 euros per month without a price shield; And 20 euros per month those who heat up with electricity, against 180 euros per month otherwise.
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