LIVE – Hunting, pensions: start of a week of highly anticipated government announcements

Initially, Emmanuel Macron wanted, in accordance with his campaign promise, a pension reform that would establish a legal retirement age of 65 years.

However, the executive should drop the ballast on the subject. The 65 years are not a “totem”, Elisabeth Borne declared for the first time last Monday.

Above all, this option would facilitate an agreement on this text with the group Les Républicains, without which the presidential camp, which only has a relative majority in the National Assembly, will not be able to approve its text without resorting to article 49, paragraph 3 of the Constitution.

However, it will remain for the LR deputies to tune into this text, while several of them, including Aurélien Pradié in particular, are against an extension from 62 to 64 years.

Among the measures planned by the government, some find the disapproval of hunters. This is the case, for example, of strengthening the training of hunters.

“The measure on the tightening of the hunting license is not easy to approve. If we tighten it further, we will lose candidates,” said Laurent Faudon, president of the Var hunting federation, on BFMTV.

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A mentioned time, the establishment of half a day or a day without hunting, no longer seems to be the government’s priority. This is strongly denounced by pro-hunters.

“It would not be consistent” with what emerged from the latest consultations and “would set fire to all rural life,” judged Willy Schraen, the head of the hunters, for example.

Among the Government’s clues: the creation of a crime of alcohol in blood set at 0.5 grams per liter of blood, the reinforcement of training with an update every ten years, or an application for residents to report hunting areas in real time.

Welcome to this live dedicated to future government announcements.

First of all, they concern hunting. The Executive announces its plan this Monday morning to combat accidents related to the practice. It will be presented at 11 a.m. by the Secretary of State for Ecology Bérangère Couillard, in Loiret, after a meeting with agents of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB), which issues permits in France and participates in the hunting police.

A sign of a busy week, Elisabeth Borne is due to present the government’s pension reform the next day, a very sensitive project because it is rejected by the majority of the French, and faces a united union front against it.