Must verify all the agreements and put an end to bank secrecy

The redesign may be minimal, it causes some changes in the Government calendar. Planned mid-April and the end of April, the second Conference on deficits is postponed to mid-may at the earliest time to François Baroin of budget records. In granting him the keys to the fifth floor of Bercy, Eric Woerth failed yesterday to pick the immensity of the future building. The restoration of public accounts "I am sure that you're going to restore revenues." There is real room for manoeuvre, it must be admitted! "Will it or not this rule of the deficit gold: the subject is launched", he said. Social security spending "There is real margins of manoeuvre in Medicare." Tax evasion "The work must be continued." Must verify all the agreements and put an end to bank secrecy. There are other lists that HSBC!

Prudent, François Baroin fluctuated between continuity and rupture: "Everything which has been committed will be continued.""The rebound of the France passes by a rebound of the economy, and therefore by a mastery of its deficits", he said, without hiding the scope very political of his appointment. "My return to the Government is part the day after the electoral defeat in a majority Pact leave, which no other purpose than to redefine a rhythm and the priority reforms."

Social agenda meeting

But, while remaining deeply Chirac supporter, the new Minister of the Budget, which has only limited experience of the corridors of Bercy (it has Litvinenko, yesterday, on the somewhat tense relationship his Minister of the overseas with the management of the Budget), will be well "box" because he will be Director of the cabinet one close to... Nicolas Sarkozy. It's Didier Banquy, who has been Director Assistant of Office of the current head of State to Bercy between 1993 and 1995, and again in 2004. For the time being Secretary General of the National Fund for Caisses d'Epargne, he masters perfectly the budget work, which will facilitate the transition.

Will for Eric Woerth, things go even faster rue de Grenelle, his team having already incorporated. The new Minister of labour, solidarity and public service retains Sébastien Proto as Director of the cabinet, is come a portion of its teams of Bercy (public service, social welfare) and will rely on the pole working of Xavier Darcos, who yesterday left the street of Grenelle not without emotion. Eric Woerth will chair the meeting of social agenda in the public service as early as Friday and pledged yesterday to a pension reform ", which protects all the retirees".

Trade unions on the defensive

It is expected at the turn by the unions. "It is not neutral it made appeal to a financial expert and who is responsible for budgetary restrictions, objects of very significant suffering to the public hospital and the National Education", said yesterday Bernard Thibault (CGT), predicting "of appointments made of tension in the country." For TCRC also, "the arrival of a Manager Minister fears an accounting approach". "If it is the reform of the pension as the reform of the State, only with financial goals, and it ignores the elements of equality, it augurs for difficult tomorrow", added François Chérèque (CFDT). "It does not address the pension accounting angle, countered Eric Woerth. Pensions, the life of the people, it is more than only numbers.