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Unpopular, including disputed by some PS, François Hollande remains right in his boots. While being held Wednesday morning meeting to retract the Government, the President explains in an interview with “World” its reform objectives.
“The problem is the course”, denounced Tuesday slingers PS. On the contrary, we must “go faster and farther,” replied the head of state. “To those who say we should review the strategy even though the measures have just been passed, I say that any sculling or zigzag render meaningless our policy and would not produce results,” he said, taking the arguments of his finance minister Michel Sapin. Monday, it was assured that if the chosen policy “does not yet give the desired results, it’s just that it is not yet fully implemented.” Overview of major projects announced
• Pact responsibility. Employers to act
bad unemployment figures and growth – zero in the second quarter – should not undermine the goal of the pact of responsibility, yet says Francois Hollande. “The choices can be discussed again whenever a quarterly index is known. Consistency is the confidence, “he says. The Head of State relies on employers so that “go to the end of the logic of the pact, he makes full use of the tax credit means for competitiveness and employment and to invest and hire not to pay dividends or make other claims. “
• Recovery Plan on Housing
“I have asked the Prime Minister to present a recovery plan. It will affect taxation, procedures and funding, “said Francois Hollande, without giving further details. “The Chained Duck” also revealed Wednesday that Manuel Valls decided to blame the failure of the first two years of the five-year old housing minister Cécile Duflot. “Duflot has pursued a policy that led to the collapse of the construction. A collapse that cost to France of 0.4 to 0.5% growth in less than today, “said Manuel Valls, according to the weekly. A response to the publication of the book-review of the latter ‘Inside. Journey to disillusionment. “
• Audience Investment
The foundation will be held in September “with all financial institutions to encourage them to lend more to SMEs, to better direct savings into the productive economy and to finance part of larger projects, such as the energy transition.”
• Regulated: Montebourg the reform on track
Minister of Economy will present in September his bill to “bring down prices and fight against the maintenance of certain annuities and privileges.”
• Opening Sunday shopping
Francois Hollande also gives satisfaction to the employers on several points: beginning with the opening of shops on Sundays for which the regulations will “fit” in the bill Montebourg. It also intends to develop learning and training schemes for the long-term unemployed.
• Negotiation on social thresholds
As for the revision of thresholds social enterprises, commissioned by the MEDEF, Holland acknowledges “the need to remove a number of locks.” He left it at first agreement of social partners, without which “the Government will take the Parliament.”
• Fiscal measures to boost consumption smaller
As revealed Wednesday morning by “Les Echos”, the government is working on new fiscal measures to restore purchasing power to the poor households. After the blow inflicted by the Constitutional Council, which censured relief employee contributions for low-income households, the executive will make further tax cuts on income by revising the schedule for the first layer as well as ‘a merger of the premium for employment and RSA
• Debt. rescheduling not
While some, like the Secretary of State for State Reform Thierry Mandon, support the rescheduling of French debt, Francois Hollande considers that” we do not need to extend the maturity of our debt “. The reason given was the very low rate – 1.4% – which France borrows in the financial markets
• Institutions: introduction of a proportional share
As for the introduction of a proportional share of the parliamentary elections, Hollande says “ready” to implement “if a majority can agree on this orientation, with a reduction in the number of MPs. ” The issue of general advice – whose radical left are anxious to retain in the rural departments failing to leave the government – is also, referred to later, “a period of 5 years was left to devise solutions” .
• Deficits: no face to face with Germany
Without denying the objective of 3% budget deficit, Francois Hollande calls for Europe to be more flexible. “The pace of fiscal consolidation in Europe must be adapted to the unique situation we are facing, which is characterized by low growth and especially by a very low inflation,” he notes. A position not shared by Germany, as did the Bundesbank know there a few days. “I do not put myself in a confrontation with Germany” says Holland. “I do not ask that you change the rules, but they are applied with all the flexibilities provided in the Treaties in exceptional circumstances.”
• Ukraine: continued dialogue
Francois Hollande calls for the establishment of a meeting “at the Head of the Ukrainian government, Russian, French and German to find a solution to the crisis “in Ukraine. He said he was in contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin to encourage political dialogue and the cease-fire. It further emphasizes the need for “compensation” for European farmers who suffer the effects of the Russian embargo. As for the controversy delivery of a second ship Mistral to Russia in 2015, Holland says that it will be submitted for deliberation in cases of “extra tension.”
• Islamic State in Iraq organization of an international conference
Holland intends to propose “soon” the organization of a “conference on security in Iraq and fight against the Islamic state “” We can no longer stick to the traditional debate, response or non-response. We must consider a comprehensive strategy against the group, which is structured, which provides substantial funding and sophisticated weapons, threatening countries like Iraq, Syria or Lebanon, “he said. The international situation is “the worst we have seen since 2001,” admits the head of state.
The head of state, which decided the delivery of weapons to Iraqi Kurds, appears to have also supplied Syrian rebels “ie the democratic opposition.” “We do not do it just to support the Kurds and Iraqis, we act for our safety,” said Holland
• Gaza. Negotiations with the Palestinian Authority
“The goal must be a demilitarization and simultaneously lifting the blockade,” said the head of state. To achieve this, Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority “should be considered as the primary contact.”
• Concern about the situation in Libya
After Mali and the Central African Republic, this could be the next arena of conflict in Africa, warns François Hollande, who believes that “the intervention of 2011 was not enough because it does was not extended. “
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