This will be the basis of departure namely

Attempt to terminate a good bad sequence. After the muddle at the top of the State on the amount of future carbon tax, François Fillon sought to decisively turn the page yesterday. "Those who confuse the price per ton of carbon with a barometer of relations between the President and the Prime Minister will be for their expenses." "I ask that one judge, not on rumors and speculation, but in the light of full arbitration that the President of the Republic will present in the next few days", was launched at the end of the summer University for the UMP of Seignosse (Landes).

Clipped Thursday by the President for having announced a bit quickly that the amount of the tax would amount to 14 euros per ton of CO, the Prime Minister was particularly cited no figure and said that he had set "a general framework", nothing more. Eager to save face, he did nothing dropped: does "not see how one could depart from the price per ton of CO2 on the market today." "This will be the basis of departure", namely... around 14 euros. It would be far from 32 recommended by the commission Rocard euros and is the bottom of the range mentioned these days. But this trend was confirmed the day before by the Adviser to the head of State Henri Guaino, eager to calm: "what it takes, it is go down and climb progressively", because "no one can adjust its behavior if you very hard."

Nicolas Sarkozy will still receive, on Wednesday, the first Secretary of the PS, Martine Aubry, and hold a last interdepartmental meeting before making its arbitration Thursday. In the meantime, the only certainty is that the carbon tax will be "compensated fully. "There is no tax increase", insists on, and that there should be compensation for the inhabitants of rural areas. It will be also specified that it is "implemented on a progressive basis" with the objective, distant, to reach the 100 euros per tonne of CO in 2030.

A wrong committed record

The weekend, Ministers and leaders of the UMP have attempted to regain control on a folder very engaged in the view. On the defensive since the crusade of Ségolène Royal, they criticized the "repudiation" of the PS running in the presidential election and decided to frankly, ecological conversion of the UMP. "It is right that ecology is today - of today", launched the Secretary of State for ecology, Chantal Jouanno.

In the meantime, the debate remains strong on the terms of compensation: Jean-Louis Borloo would like a "green check", Xavier Bertrand a "simple" and readable as reduction or tax credit system. The track which seems to have the wind would eliminate the idea of reduction in social contributions. It would be reduced by the use of taxation to redistribute. Taxable households would see their taxes reduced, others would receive a cheque. Discussions continue between experts from here on Thursday on other forms of compensation more social for households in precarious energy situation and to assist those not having access to public transit. This morning in "Release", Nicolas Hulot, who says that the "climate-energy contribution should apply to all," application "for those who work at night," accompanying measures which do not have access to public transit Happy playing the Cassandras, Jean-François Copé has warned against the risk of "creating a large plant to gas" and scratched the reassuring discourse of the Executive on the absence of tax hikes by explaining that some "taxpayers, individually, is lose."