France the return of the rigour on lesechos

Two weeks after the submission of the pension reform, the Government plays new credibility, today, on the second part of its plan of recovery of public finances, as on the budget of the State and its Governments. After the symbolic measures Monday (removal of presidential hunts, reduction of ministerial, etc.), to demonstrate that efforts are shared "from base to the Summit", are painful decisions (150 measures), hitting all of the authorities, which must be detailed by François Baroin, at Council of Ministers and then to a hearing before the Board of Finance of the Assembly. They will feed into the direction of the financial debate, scheduled Tuesday next to the Assembly. Objective: achieve 10 billion in savings per year to the year 2013. This is what the Government describes as Act II of the General review of public policies (RGPP). "The first sequence to remove 100,000 officials positions." "The second wave is based on the same philosophy, with 100,000 officers less on 2011-2013", the Minister of the Budget yesterday told the Assembly.

Launched in December 2007, the first wave is expected to produce 7.7 billion euros in savings in 2011, 6 billion after retrocession to officials of half of the savings on the deletions of posts (representing only 3 billion savings). "Today it appears that estimate is no longer current," wrote the Court of Auditors in its report on the situation and the prospects for public finances. In his letter Monday, the Elysee yet reaffirmed that the objective would be achieved.

100,000 deleted jobs

A review of the measures taken in the RGPP 2009 is schedule to the Act of settlement. 374 Announced measures, 58 have been fully implemented. Thanks to them, about 1 billion euros would was saved last year, the policy of intervention, some 500 million euros on operational expenses. Buildings by remote monitoring, for example, allowed the redeployment of 4,000 agents. The merger of the Treasury and taxes also released some 15,000 positions. In total, 100,000 jobs were deleted on three years, or 5 of the population of the State. Certain expenses of intervention were also reformed: aid for innovation, for example, have refocused on companies under 5,000 employees, or a few tens of million of savings.

The second phase of the RGPP will be of greater magnitude: it will involve not only the replacement of a staff member on two (3 billion gross savings over the horizon 2013) - a principle extended to the-l state operators ' acceleration of the decline in operating expenses (cars, competition expenses, communication expenses, etc.), but also the broader intervention expenditure involved. The 2011-2013 budget a blow to plane of 10 over 3 years (5 by 2011) on some 70 billion of expenditure, which involves difficult choices on employment (deletion of targeted aid), economy (aid to SMEs, competitiveness clusters, etc.), housing, etc. "some Governments will be totally deprived of their power." "The challenge to the State is much deeper than in the previous three years," fears an officer.

François Baroin will highlight 100 of administrative simplifications promised to the French. Among them: the project of one-stop shop for the disabled, a registration simplified the day of preparation for the defence appeal, etc. With to show that the public service will be not affected.

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