The president returns to focus on national politics after closing the semester of the French presidency of the EU with several successes
Returning to the Elysée after an intense international agenda for the past two weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing a change of government with Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne. This is necessary after his party lost an absolute majority in the National Assembly in the parliamentary elections in June.
The centrist president has “promised an executive branch.” The names of the new ministers are expected to be announced before Wednesday, when Borne will hand over its general policy statement to parliament. The last cabinet change took place on May 20, after the presidential elections in April.
At the moment, the prime minister is not expected to submit to a confidence vote from deputies on Wednesday. The left-wing trade union (Nupes) asks to do so, but is not obliged to do so. La France Insumisa (France’s Podemos) has already announced that it will at least table a motion of censure, although lack of support means it is unlikely to topple Borne.
A remodeling of the Executive is necessary after the last meeting with the polls. At least four members of the current government will leave, although there could be more changes. Ministers Amélie de Montchalin (Ecological Transition) and Brigitte Bourguignon (Public Health), and the Secretary of State for the Sea, Justine Bénin, have been forced to resign, because they have not won a seat in the National Assembly and do not have the support of their constituencies . In addition, they will have to find a replacement for the head of Overseas, Yaël Braun-Pivet, the new president of the French lower house, the first woman to be given the position.
They can also leave the Borne team, Damien Abad, Minister of Solidarity; and Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Secretary of State for Development. The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the attempted rape of Abad after a complaint from a woman and Zacharopoulou, a gynecologist by trade, has been accused by two clients of abuse and a third of “gynecological violence” for events allegedly lasting years. in his medical consultation.
Macron returns to national politics and the country’s problems after a six-month period with a very busy international agenda: from the rotating French presidency of the Council of the European Union to the war in Ukraine, including the NATO summit in Madrid and the G7 meeting in Germany. He was hardly involved in the election campaigns for presidential and parliamentary elections. He turned more to the rotating EU presidency and the war in Ukraine.
France took over the reins of the EU on January 1, handing them over to the Czech Republic on July 1. “The Europe of June 2022 is very different from that of January 2022,” Macron said on June 24 in Brussels.
Russia’s unilateral aggression against Ukraine changed the European agenda of the Elysee. His tenant managed to get the Twenty-seven to sympathize with Kiev and introduce sanctions against Moscow. They sent military equipment to Kiev and welcomed the refugees with open arms. At the Versailles summit, held on 10-11 May, EU leaders agreed, among other things, to strengthen their defense capabilities and reduce their dependence on Russian gas, oil and coal imports.
Community partners supported the Paris proposal on the reform of the Schengen area. The Schengen Council was thus established on the model of the Eurogroup, the informal body in which euro area ministers regularly debate issues related to the single currency. The aim of this ‘political pilot’ is both to guarantee the free movement of persons in complete safety and to protect the external borders.
Member States also, under the Paris presidency, approved the climate package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, the digital markets law, which takes power away from the tech giants and agreed on a European minimum wage.
However, the French Presidency failed to introduce a minimum tax of 15% on the profits of multinationals at European level, which was one of its priorities for this first semester. Paris collided with the blockade, first from Poland and then from Hungary.
Source: La Verdad
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