Manuel Valls reframed Tuesday Ecology Minister Segolene Royal, judging his unthinkable proposition a free highways weekend and defending a “fully inclusive” agreement on tolls “in the coming weeks.”
“I think (free on weekends) is an event that should not be considered,” said the prime minister out of a meeting in the Senate in mid-day while Matignon had already decided before the “hard to imagine” idea.
Ms. Royal, who wants to have the highways contribution corporations to finance the shortfall of abandoning the environmental tax heavyweights, proposed Tuesday morning on RTL, “a free, such as the weekend” and that a 10% rate of tolls.
“There’s 20% Rate too, because when a highway charged 100 euros, 20 euros there too that are pocketed, “argued the minister, referring to a report by the Competition Authority published last month described as” pension “net margins (20-24%) of motorway concessions, privatized there eight years.
The representatives of highways (Vinci-Cofiroute, Eiffage-APRR, Sanef and companies the Association of French motorway companies, ASFA) were justly received shortly after speaking at Matignon around the prime minister, whose speech was far less incendiary exit interview an hour and a half.
On the front steps of Matignon, Manuel Valls wanted a “win-win partnership between the state (and) dealers motorway companies,” pointing out that “the word of France obviously be honored, will never surrender concerned “, referring to hard renegotiated contracts for concessions.
” I wish that this debate is taking place in serenity and in the interest of all, and that was the sense of the meeting . So there will be now in the coming weeks working meetings between these companies (highway) and the Ministry of Transport and Bercy to reach an agreement that is beneficial to all, to the state, the users and the French economy, “he said.
The Prime Minister says he wants to reach an” agreement in the coming weeks. ” “I think it can go fast, provided again that favors the general interest,” he pleaded.
Representatives of motorway companies, whose number 2 Vinci and president of ASFA Pierre Coppey but also the President of the Sanef Alain Minc, Matignon left without comment, while the climate of their relationship with the government was already described in the press as “glacial” .
– ‘Free Pastry on Sunday’ –
Ms. Royal, who was present as well as the Secretaries of State Christian Eckert (Budget) and Alain Vidal (Transport), representatives discussed “open to discussion” and defended “fair system for everyone, and especially that can revive public works.”
Manuel Valls has indeed confirmed Tuesday it had received approval Brussels highway stimulus plan, under discussion between the state and the motorway concession for more than two years companies.
This particular provides more than 3 billion euros of investments (security work, park and ride for road, parking car sharing, put in connection with the secondary highways network … ) in return for extensions of concessions (from four months to six years, depending on the company.)
A drain on corporate profits highway is the main runway to compensate Ms. Royal abandoning environmental tax heavyweights, originally scheduled report 1.15 billion euros a year and 600 million in its reduced version of the “heavy toll transit weight,” pushed sine die last week.
If the Secretary of State for the Budget Christian Eckert was in his direction Sunday calling for a “challenge” profits “unacceptable” motorway companies, several commentators, including the finance minister Michel Sapin, have pointed to the technical difficulty and legal change of concession contracts, an increase in the taxation of motorway companies to be compensated.
These funds were mainly for the Agency to finance transport infrastructure in France (AFITF ), which in turn would make them available to communities for many projects of transport.
The opposition, through the voice of the UMP Christian Jacob, was quick to mock ” machine hiccups “Valls government, already out of contradictory statements on unemployment insurance. “This is nonsense, why not put the free pastries on Sunday as well?” Had fun the president of the UMP group in the Assembly.
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