ECOLOGICAL DEFENSE COUNCIL AN OPPORTUNISTIC MOBILIZATION OF GOVERNMENT IN THREE DAYS OF EUROPEANS - DayNewsWorld

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ECOLOGICAL DEFENSE COUNCIL AN OPPORTUNISTIC MOBILIZATION OF GOVERNMENT IN THREE DAYS OF EUROPEANS
AT three days of the European elections Emmanuel Macron unites the first Ecological Defense Council. This Council, whose creation, in the manner of the Defense Council, was announced on April 25th at the conclusion of the great national debate, is composed of the Prime Minister and twelve ministers. It aims to coordinate the government's environmental action and ensure their "priority" in public policies, says the presidency. "It is a form of council of ministers, but dedicated entirely to the ecological transition.The priority indicated by the President of the Republic to the climate issue can not be the affair of a single minister, it brings together all the ministers the more concerned ", it is known in the entourage of the Head of State. The Prime Minister and the Ministers of Ecological Transition, Economy, Budget, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Territorial Communities, Health, Housing and Overseas are permanent members of this Council , lists the decree of the Official Journal. Some announcements are expected as the probable abandonment of the project "Montagne d'Or", this open-pit gold mine in Guyana "incompatible with environmental requirements," according to Emmanuel Macron. The minister of ecological and solidarity transition, François de Rugy, must also go to Guyana in mid-June. A series of other topics will be discussed, such as the reinforcement of protected natural areas, a trail evoked by the head of state after his meeting with the UN biodiversity experts in early May. The Council could also propose to curb the artificialisation of soils, to stop the reduction of agricultural land in favor of subdivisions, to set new plastic recycling targets or to specify the future law on the circular economy, expected at the beginning of July in the Council of Europe. ministers. This Council will also have to take stock of the climate plan adopted in July 2017 and the biodiversity plan adopted in July 2018 and, more generally, monitor the "green" programs already announced, such as the cycling plan. This staging of the declared voluntarism of the Head of State on environmental issues did not fail to elicit reactions from his critics denouncing an "electoral opportunism" to three days of voting in France for the European elections. Has not his party, LREM, made the ecological transition a priority of its program for Europeans with the rallying of some headliners stuck in the environmental camp, like Pascal Canfin and Pascal Durand ? The REM knows that the list of Europe Ecology-Greens (EELV) represents a threat likely to make the majority lose some valuable points ... In addition, a day of international youth mobilization and numerous marches are announced, Friday and Saturday, in France and abroad. No question for Emmanuel Macron to let the ecologists take back ground.



Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld