PS Mayor of Lille Martine Aubry pleads, faced with the crisis following the Covid-19 epidemic, for a “Ecological reconstruction plan” of 50 billion euros per year, in a column published on June 7 in Le Sunday Journal.
“Saving our businesses and our jobs is the top priority”, insists the former Minister of Employment and Solidarity, but if the recovery plan “Relies on previous revenues, crises will resume as before, sooner or later”. This is why, in his eyes, “The second immediate priority is investing in the energy transition”.
“We must commit ourselves resolutely to reach [une société bas carbone] before 2050. I dream of a France in turmoil : housing renovation, public transport, rail freight, solar and thermal power stations, product recycling, organic and local agriculture, etc. ”, underlines Mme Aubry, vying for the second round of municipal elections on June 28.
“In ten years, let’s achieve what we had planned to do in thirty. Public spending that reduces ecological debt is certainly essential. Here, local authorities have an essential role to play. In a few days, the new municipal councils will be set up ; their boxes are full of projects to transform our modes of production, consumption, exchange … which will come up against their finances, tested by the Covid-19 “, she adds.
“Let’s constitute an avant-garde”
The mayor of Lille therefore proposes “The launching by the State, from September, of a call for projects of ecological reconstruction for an amount of 50 billion euros per year, the projects of the retained communities profiting from a financial contribution of the State of 80 % “.
This “Double the effort for the climate” East “Deemed necessary by experts to achieve carbon neutrality”. “You have to finance it with debt, which is an investment and not a debt when it finances an asset”, she argues.
And, according to Martine Aubry, ecological spending should not “Not be taken into account in the reduction of deficits at European level”. “Let’s stop sheltering behind the blockages, let’s be a vanguard with all those who want to carry this new Europe. “
She also pleads for the extension, “The time it will take”, from “Public support for partial unemployment” and according to her, the unemployment insurance reform should not “Not just be permanently canceled” but we must also immediately establish “Universal unemployment insurance”.
Measures whose cost “May be financed by new revenue”, as “The alignment of capital taxation with that of labor” where the “Reinstatement of the wealth tax [ISF] “.
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