Reclaim the countryside. The Prime Minister is traveling on Thursday June 15 in Liglet, in Vienne. She presented the axes of the France rurality plan, which includes around forty measures to respond to the specific challenges of the rural world.. “It’s an elected official from the Normandy countryside who tells you, rural areas have everything to succeed”, assured Elisabeth Borne. Follow our live.
Biodiversity at the heart of the program. The plan aims to help municipalities carry out their projects, such as programs for the revitalization of city centres. “Our rural territories are fragile, on the front line in the face of climate change”worried Thursday the Prime Minister. Among the measures already announced the day before, the villages will be remunerated thanks to an endowment “biodiversity” which will be increased by 42 million euros “more than 100 million euros”. The government had clarified on Wednesday that it is a question of protecting the “rural amenities”including protected natural areas.
Housing, shops, health… Cascading aid. “We will devote 15 million euros to supporting municipalities, in the implementation of operations to revitalize the territory and housing”, promised Elisabeth Borne on Thursday. To respond to the scourge of empty housing, “a bounty of 5 000 euros” will be offered to owners who “rehabilitate their vacant home”. While “more than 20 000 municipalities no longer have businesses”, the Prime Minister confirmed the release of a fund of 12 million euros to finance facilities. From this summer, “75 first businesses” are going to open. In the domain of health, “100 medical buses” will be deployed with volunteer communities, as well as “4,000 nursing homes by 2027”.
Open up rural areas. A fund of 90 million euros over three years must be released. It will help local authorities to deploy mobility services “innovative and united” so that people “be less dependent on their car”also specified Matignon on Wednesday.