Back to the discussion table. More than a month after her last meeting with the inter-union, Elisabeth Borne will meet, Tuesday May 16 and Wednesday May 17, the leaders of the five main unions during bilateral talks at Matignon. The FO union will be received at 6:15 p.m., followed by the CFDT at 7:30 p.m. The Prime Minister has an appointment on Wednesday with the CFE-CGC, the CFTC and the CGT. The executive wants “to re-establish a peaceful and constructive dialogue”without to impose“precise agenda” to the social partners. The unions meanwhile intend to keep up the pressure against the pension reform. Follow our live.
A year at Matignon. Elisabeth Borne’s day will also be marked by the first anniversary of her appointment as head of government. A position that she does not see herself leaving: “I want to continue to act for the French”, she confided to franceinfo. “I am very proud to have appointed Elisabeth Borne a year ago”, for his part greeted Emmanuel Macron on Monday on TF1.
Emmanuel Macron rejects any form of “contempt”. “This reform, I assume it”assured the Head of State again on Monday during his interview on TF1, while defending a text “necessary to guarantee the balance of our accounts and the future of our children”. “When you have contempt, you don’t care. Real contempt is lying to people. Real contempt is that”he estimated.
Tax cuts for “the middle classes”. Emmanuel Macron has announced that he wants “focus” two billion euros of cuts of taxes on “middle class” by 2027, “when the budgetary trajectory allows it in this five-year period”. The Head of State, however, did not specify the measures envisaged.