Pension reform, price increase, health system crisis, wage demands … the files accumulate on the executive office.
by Claire Gatinois
End of monarchy obliges, Emmanuel Macron will not celebrate the kings. Thursday, January 5, the head of state will celebrate more soberly, as tradition wants, the Epiphany around a “republican galette”, gigantic, and without bean. The opportunity to bring together, at the Elysée, the president of the National Confederation of the French bakery, Dominique Anract, and other representatives of the profession. To listen to them and, perhaps, to appease them. Because at the beginning of 2023, presidential frangipane will have a particular flavor: that of the crisis. One of the multiple difficulties that the government is preparing to face.
Strangled by the rise in electricity prices, thousands of small craftsmen threaten to put the key under the door. To save the manufacturers of French wand, listed as the intangible heritage of UNESCO humanity in November 2022, the government is struggling and intends to make it known. “We will be alongside each bakery in France,” said the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire on Tuesday, January 3, after a meeting in Bercy with representatives of the sector.
Evoking aid which already allows a discount of 15 % and up to 40 % of the increases recorded on the electricity bill, the tenant of Bercy calls the electricity suppliers, summoned the same day to the ministry, “to Do more, better, and immediately “, to help the profession. Bakers may in particular terminate their electricity supply contract free of charge in the event of an increase in “prohibitive” prices, assured Bruno Le Maire.
This hand stretched to one of the most emblematic professions in the country is added to the announcement on Tuesday by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, on Franceinfo, to authorize the transfer of payment of taxes and contributions social for all SMEs. One way to extinguish one of the first starts of fire that threaten the country?
The French between anger and resignation
Even before the announcement of the unpopular pension reform, scheduled for January 10, the homes of anger are increasing. To the strike of train controllers during the holiday season, based on wage demands, was added that, rare, of liberal doctors.
In the coming weeks, the overwhelmed hospital will grow the list of dissatisfied. A meeting of the Inter-Hôpitaux Collective (CIH), to which the various trade union organizations are invited, is scheduled for Wednesday to decide, or not, a strike movement of hospital staff.
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