Budget: the Louvre, Orsay and Versailles open seven days a week – Release

The key

• The draft budget law for 2015 was presented Wednesday by the Cabinet.

• Between the pressure from the Commission to reduce deficits, slowing tax revenues linked to the crisis and commitments to lowering corporate levies, the executive has almost no leeway.

• As of Tuesday, the government confirmed a decrease of € 3.7 billion in state grants to local governments in 2015

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1:40 p.m. The government plans to open seven days on seven three French most visited museums. – The Louvre, Versailles and Orsay – according to the draft 2015 budget of Culture presented Wednesday. “The opening of the three most visited national museums (Versailles, Louvre, Orsay) 7 days 7 will improve the reception of visitors and enhance the accessibility of works” , as text of the draft Finance Act 2015 This will take place after a consultation, including with employee representatives.

13.30. “There are no cuts in family policy. There are decisions that will change the rules that exist today “ says government spokesman, Stephane Le Foll, following the Council of Ministers. “Is it that there has been cuts to benefits? Does family policy globally has been questioned? No. “, supports Le Foll. “We were looking to do a family policy that is as a fair, but keep because there are no cuts” and “there is no questioning of family policy “, has he insisted.

12:40. allocations for state medical aid will be increased by 73 million euros, against 17 million in the previous budget. In 2014, the appropriations under AME totaled € 605 million, up 2.9% from the initial allocation of 2013.

12:40. Insurers are involved in the proposed budget in 2015 to fund legal aid (AJ) after abandonment by the government of the proposed tax lawyers who had led an outcry of profession.

The project will increase “special tax on insurance contracts for legal protection” to diversify the sources of funding for legal aid allows the smaller litigants to have their legal costs and attorneys’ fees paid by the state. An appreciation of the “ fixed law of criminal procedure” and “flat tax on acts of judicial officers” is also expected to finance the AJ.

24:15. The TV license fee will increase by three euros in France in 2015 will reach 136 euros contribution in France and 86 euros in the departments overseas in 2015, according to the text released by the government, which states that this recipe will be partly assigned to the company TV5 Monde, replacing the subsidy currently paid.

12:08. The Education and Teaching Higher still preserved in the draft budget 2015, with the continued creation of 60,000 jobs promised on the five-year period, and assistance to municipalities “most fragile” in the context of the reform of the rhythms school.

The budget for school education (education and technical training in farming), amounted to € 47.4 billion and € 66.4 billion if pensions are included. It rose $ 1.1 billion, the amount announced by the former Minister Benoît Hamon during the handover with Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

12:07. Florian Philippot , vice president of the FN, see the” brinkmanship “ in the draft budget for 2015, denouncing measures “austerity” and “selling the family jewels.”

Midi. Just introduced, the 2015 state budget is considered vulnerable by the High Council of Public Finance , which qualifies “optimistic” providing a 1% growth on which the government based its calculations.

11:50. The draft defense budget is lawful military program, with € 31.4 billion of total resources. The objectives of job cuts in the armed are also confirmed, with 7,500 fewer jobs next year, reaching a “cap job” 265 846 end of 2015 Defense. 23,500 additional jobs in total, shall be removed over the period 2014-2019.

11:35. The increase in the tax on diesel, registered in the draft Finance Bill 2015 was ‘indispensable’ judge Wednesday Hulot Foundation, but making that decision to compensate for the abandonment of the environmental tax “and exempt motor carriers any contribution is not the best way to do it. “

11:30. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan , President of the Republic Standing, said in a statement that “this obsession of wanting at all costs reduce deficits prevents recovery of growth in our country. This is not the reduction of € 3.7 billion endowment of local authorities, which will require municipalities to tighten their belts, which will allow our country to recreate wealth. “

11 hours. Government forecasts for growth for 2016 to 2017 are based on “too favorable assumptions on international environment and investment “, according to the High Council of Public Finance.

The government plans in its 2015 draft budget as growth, expected to only 0, 4% this year, is expected to accelerate to 1% in 2015, 1.7% in 2016 and 1.9% in 2017, however, the High Council recognizes in its opinion on the draft, the macroeconomic scenario of the government is “more realistic than the one presented in April in the stability program” budget.

The rising price of diesel confirmed

9:45. France ‘s responsibilities took” in budgetary matters and Europe must ‘ s responsibilities also take her in all its components “ face the faltering growth, says finance minister, Michel Sapin. The minister said that the European Central Bank (ECB) had done his part, and that his comment applied especially for ‘country surplus “, and clearly aimed Germany.

9:00. The increase of 2 cents per liter tax Diesel Confirmed: “The financing for mobility planning contracts state / regions will be provided by AFITF (Agency funding of transport infrastructure in France), which will benefit from the toll and transit produces an increase of 2 cents per liter of the TICPE (domestic consumption tax on energy products) on diesel, “ according to the press release of the draft budget.

Secretary of State for the Budget, Christian Eckert, said at a press conference that this increase would have a yield of around EUR 800 million, and does not apply to carriers exempt from TICPE.

8:25. The effort savings expected in 2015 for the state and its agents to € 7.7 billion, according to its draft budget presented Wednesday by the Cabinet. The Finance Minister Michel Sapin, 10 September gave slightly lower, with lower spending one billion euros when they should have mechanically move six billion, a total effort of seven billion. The government expects savings of 21 billion euros in 2015 on the progress of all public spending, which includes social security and local authorities.

8:18. France plans by 2017 a decline in the deficit from 4.3% of GDP in 2015 to 3.8% in 2016 and 2.8% last year quinquennium Hollande, according to the draft law to be presented to the Council of Ministers.

Meanwhile, the government foresees a gradual reduction of public expenditure, excluding tax credits granted, should increase from 56 5% of GDP this year to 56.1% in 2015 and 55.5% next year and 54.5% in 2017.

8:15 . MP Laurent Wauquiez (photo AFP), support for Nicolas Sarkozy, expressed his disagreement on RTL. “What bothers me about this budget is that I fear that this is another bleeding for the middle class and that this government is very hypocritical when he says he cuts taxes: he took to one hand what it gives with the other. “

judge” violent and cynical ‘ speech Hollande on economic necessarily painful and must “shout” . “There is pain that end up being fatal and it is killing the middle class in France” , warns the deputy mayor of Le Puy-en-Velay.