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Another solution. Socialist deputies announced on Friday July 15 that they had tabled a bill to “an audiovisual, universal and progressive contribution” to finance public broadcasting rather than the abolition of the fee promised by Emmanuel Macron.
“The government’s arguments in favor of simply abolishing it are not sincere”denounce the elected representatives of the socialist and related group, by proposing a new architecture “inspired by Scandinavian models”. This initiative is supported by socialist senators, such as Patrick Kanner, but also Julia Cagé, professor of economics at Sciences-Po Paris and specialist in media economics, who co-sign with deputies including Boris Vallaud, a forum in Release.
“A more socially just solution”
If they recognize that the royalty, “unfair and obsolete, must be reformed and modernized”the signatories estimate que “the end of this allocated resource amounts to submitting, each year, the public audiovisual sector to the goodwill of the government”. Instead, the bill proposes to “replace the current system with an allocated and progressive contribution according to the level of income of citizens, the amount and allocation of which will be controlled by an independent body”.
“This solution is more socially just by making it possible to really increase the purchasing power of the French, more modern because it no longer applies only to television and secures long-term funding for public broadcasting”, says the text. This measure “would lower the amount of the fee for 85% of households”according to the signatories.
“For the 12 million most modest households, for example, it would cost between 0 and 30 euros, compared to 138 euros today.”
the signatories of a forumin Liberation
For Emmanuel Macron, the fee – which finances France Télévisions, Radio France, INA, TV5 Monde and France Médias Monde – does not guarantee the independence of these media since their budgets are supplemented by the State to the tune of “several hundred million euros per year” for ten years. It proposes a multiannual budget to finance public broadcasting, in order to guarantee its independence. Paid by households that own a television set, the fee should bring in 3.2 billion euros this year.
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