PRIME MINISTER EDOUARD PHILIPPE UNVEILS HIS ROAD MAP OF THE QUINQUENNIUM

USPA NEWS - Edouard Philippe, the French Prime Minister unveiled his road map before he 577 MP´s and ministers at the General Assembly., one day after the President Emmanuel Macron made his statement at Versailles, before the Congress. Here is the remainder of the integrity of the general policy discourse of the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on 4th July. He was warmly applauded and standing ovation at the end of his 1hour of speech.

“France must move forward. There is in our dear old country an envy, an energy, a hope that transcends the political currents, and that is what should surprise no one. The French have accustomed us through the ages to these collective bursts and these returns of confidence even when everything seemed blocked, even lost. In 2017, the French told us that they wanted France to finally become herself, confident, courageous and conquering.----------------------------------------------------------------------- To restore herself, France must restore confidence and, first of all, the confidence of the French in public action. I'm talking about confidence and not morality. I will not be the arbiter of elegance and I do not like mixing genres.--------------------------- Nor am I an unconditional of the absolute transparency that turns quickly to voyeurism and hypocrisy. I believe in the old Roman word of "virtue" which covers both honesty, rectitude and courage.------------------------------------------------------------ We have made progress in this area for thirty years. Under pressure, but very clearly, the rules governing the financing of political parties and electoral campaigns are now much stricter and much healthier than they were thirty years ago. Edouard Philippe the French Prime Minister stated---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRESS MUST BE ASSUMED AND SUSTAINED BY PUBLIC LIFE----------------------------------------------------------- "Let us assume this progress, they do not count for nothing. I want to make it clear that we must never discredit those who have made the honorable choice of devoting part of their lives to the service of their fellow citizens and to the public good. But in their own interest we must still act, for there are obviously ladies and gentlemen deputies practices that have long been tolerated and that the French people no longer accept. It is a matter of setting the framework that will make it possible to rehabilitate our public life and restore the confidence of the French while setting clear rules for elected representatives. This is the subject of the first bill that has been submitted to you; As the President of the Republic said yesterday, we will also launch in the year the institutional reforms essential to the modernization of our democracy." Edouard Philippe the French Prime Minister stated

THE REFORM OF JUSTICE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF MAGISTRATS BY 2018------------------------------------------ "In particular, I will insist on the reform of the judiciary. In a state of law nothing is possible without a strong justice. If it is slow, distant or unequal, or even only too complex, confidence becomes fragile. The constitutional reform will strengthen the independence of magistrates. As early as 2018, a five-year law on the programming of the means of justice will be presented to Parliament. This law will enable the Garde des Sceaux to undertake a vast movement of dematerialization, simplification and reorganization. Trusting in justice means being able to use it simply and knowing that it will decide quickly, particularly on the most serious offenses: fighting terrorism, serious crime, organized fraud, violence, especially those done to the most fragile. The penalties will be strengthened, while other incivilities will be subject to fines rather than more cumbersome procedures, but too often lacking in facts." Edouard Philippe French PM stated-------------------------------------------------------- THE PRISONS WILL HAVE 15,000 ADDITIONAL PLACES--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The construction of 15,000 prison places is a strong commitment of the President of the Republic, it will be held. Because not being able to incarcerate those who must be incarcerated is inadmissible. But also because we have to treat detainees with dignity. This is essential not to turn prisons into incubators of the violence of tomorrow, but it is essential for us because it is also our dignity that is at stake.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will do what needs to be done without forgetting that prison is not an end in itself and that it is necessary to use all the sanctions provided for in the penal code. The use of confinement should not reflect a laziness of mind which would refrain from considering the meaning of punishment, the need to prevent recidivism, and the obligation to prepare for reintegration. SOCIAL SECURITY IS THE PATRIMONY OF THOSE WHO HAVE NONE------------------------------------------------------- Restoring confidence also means reassuring the French about the future of social security. Social Security is a part of ourselves. It is, as a beautiful formula says, "the patrimony of those who do not." But if this is the case, treat it as a true patrimony, by maintaining it, preserving it, and renovating it. That is true for our health care system. The French are attached to the park that, rightly, they trust their doctor and health professionals and the hospital that remains a pole of French excellence" Edouard Philippe French PM added--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Diseases thought to be eradicated are developing again in our territory. Children die of measles today in France. In the homeland of PASTEUR it is not admissible. Next year, early childhood vaccines, which are unanimously recommended by health authorities, will become mandatory. In the fight against tobacco there again it makes us assume courageous choices. Every year tobacco in France causes more than 80,000 deaths. It is the leading cause of preventable mortality and increases daily tobacco use among adolescents. Doing nothing is excluded, we will gradually increase the price of the package of cigarettes to 10 euros by fighting without mercy against the traffics that undermine this health policy as much as they weaken those who respect the law." Edouard Philippe PM, stated----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We will create a health service for students in the health sector, to enable them to intervene in schools and businesses for prevention actions. However warning is not enough. We will also need to review the way our health care system is organized. Our healthcare professionals are knowledgeable and dedicated. But their action is too often hampered by the rigidities of our structures, administrative ties, and silos."----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Care pathways must therefore be developed by promoting the interconnection of health professionals and the circulation of information for the benefit of the patient, by introducing new incentives and new remuneration methods, by measuring the quality of care and By making it known. The Social Security Financing Bill will reflect this ambition this year.------------------ Our health strategy should also ensure equal access to care. Not only in law but above all in practice.------------------------------ The Minister of Health is preparing a plan for the fight against medical deserts in good time with the local authorities and the players in the health sector. In this field, telemedicine offers tremendous opportunities, we will promote them. Finally, our health strategy will have to break the vicious circle of renouncing care. By the end of the quinquennium all French people will have access to offers without any rest for the glasses, the dental care and the hearing aids.-------------------- But they also find that the system is poorly coordinated, that the distribution between emergency and consultation, between city care and hospital care is not optimal, that basically there is no exclusion or exclusion from care if the increase some inequalities. Prevention will be the backbone of the national health strategy discussed in the fall.----------------------------------- Diseases thought to be eradicated are developing again in our territory. Children die of measles today in France. In the homeland of PASTEUR it is not admissible. Next year, early childhood vaccines, which are unanimously recommended by health authorities, will become mandatory.“The French Prime minister added

THE CIGARETTE BOX WILL BE SOLD AT 10 € TO PREVENT THE 80 000 DEATHS BY THE TOBACCO In the fight against tobacco there again it makes us assume courageous choices. Every year tobacco in France causes more than 80,000 deaths. It is the leading cause of preventable mortality and increases daily tobacco use among adolescents. Doing nothing is excluded, we will gradually increase the price of the package of cigarettes to 10 euros by fighting mercilessly against the trafficking that undermine this health policy as much as they weaken those who respect the law. We will create a health service for students in the health sector, to enable them to intervene in schools and businesses for prevention actions. But warning is not enough. We will also need to review the way our health care system is organized. Our healthcare professionals are knowledgeable and dedicated. But their action is too often hampered by the rigidities of our structures, administrative ties, and silos.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care pathways must therefore be developed by promoting the interconnection of health professionals and the circulation of information for the benefit of the patient, by introducing new incentives and new remuneration methods, by measuring the quality of care and By making it known. The Social Security Financing Bill will reflect this ambition this year.------------------ Our health strategy should also ensure equal access to care. Not only in law but above all in practice.------------------------------ The Minister of Health is preparing a plan for the fight against medical deserts in good time with the local authorities and the players in the health sector. In this field, telemedicine offers tremendous opportunities, we will promote them. Finally, our health strategy will have to break the vicious circle of renouncing care. By the end of the quinquennium all French people will have access to offers without any rest for the glasses, the dental care and the hearing aids--------------------- CHANGING THE SOCIETY'S LOOK AT THE DISABILITY THE POOR AND WHAT WE RECEIVE OF THEM Restoring trust is knowing that we will all be here, all judged on how we behave with the weakest. Not only to change the way society looks at them, the disability, the elderly, the poorest, but also to recognize all that we can receive from them. COMBATING POVERTY AND FACILITATING PROCEEDINGS FOR HOLDERS BY 2018------------------------------------ “As of 2018, we will revalue the Adult Disabled Allowance and the Old Age Allowance; We simplify the procedures for the holders of social rights which often, through desperation or ignorance, no longer claim them. We will strengthen our efforts in the fight against poverty, with special emphasis on families with young children. These financial efforts are necessary and they will not be sufficient. We also need to recognize and support emotional and financial family solidarity.Families are increasingly diverse, but their role remains central. The generation of my grandparents was the first to benefit from retirement; The generation of my parents is the first to benefit from the retirement while having assumed part of the aid to his own parents.The change of civilization and major, it does not seem to me sufficiently taken into account; The decline in the birth rate on its part, real for two years, must alert us.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will therefore stop considering families as simple tax adjustment variables. The Minister of Health and Solidarity will present measures to improve maternity leave and childcare solutions; It is also a measure that is part of the great national cause of equality between women and men.“ Edouard Philippe the French PM, stated

THE DISABILITY WILL BE A PRINCIPLE OF THE FIVE-YEAR-------------------------------------------------------------------- “Inclusion of persons with disabilities will be one of the priorities of the five-year plan. It is to a national mobilization that I call under the impulse of the President of the Republic and under the leadership of the Secretary of State. Persons with disabilities and those accompanying them have the right to national solidarity. They need much more, and they can bring us more. A handicapped child in school is not just a matter of money or even justice, it is a chance for all his comrades. A company or a territorial collectivity that hires rather than pay a tax is a stronger and more motivated working community. The means can not be unlimited, but the energy we put into it will not be counted.----------------------------------------------------- Restoring confidence also strengthens the link between the state and the territories. We are no longer in the days when the Republic, still ill-asserted, imagined its unity only at the cost of uniformity. French-style gardens have their charm but they lend themselves relatively little to the abundance of initiatives the country needs and to which communities are ready. As the President of the Republic reaffirmed yesterday, we want to give local freedoms all their strength. The freedom to organize first by developing the new municipalities or the regrouping of departments as soon as the mergers are not contrary to the general interest. The freedom to exercise its powers, then, dare to experiment, do not decree the end of the territorial millefeuille from Paris, but encourage the territories to adapt their organization locally so that wherever possible we can reach only two levels, Local level below the regional level. Why not, on the basis of voluntary service, to allow certain communities to exercise competence on behalf of another level or by delegation? REFORM OF THE HOUSING TAX WILL BE APPLIED AT THE END OF A MANDATE--------------------------------------- "In terms of local finance, we engage in discussions with local and regional authorities, because if each of course has to contribute to the recovery of our public accounts, this must be done in dialogue and respect and with the necessary predictability good management.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is within this framework that we will initiate the dialogue on the reform of the housing tax which must contribute by the end of the quinquennium to make the purchasing power to the vast majority of our fellow citizens.-------------------------------- I know this reform is expected by the taxpayers but feared by the elected officials. The tax on housing is also necessary to the local budgets that it is unjust in its calculation and its evolution for the taxpayers; And who can not say the contrary!“ Edouard Philippe The French Prime Minister stated----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TRUST IS ALL THAT GATHER AND THIS IS WHAT IS FRANCE------------------------------------------------------------------- “Trust is all that brings us together, France is a nation and a nation is neither a juxtaposition of territories nor an addition of communities, let alone a sum of individuals. A nation is an adherence to values, a history, a geography, it is a culture that assumes and is transmitted. Being French means recognizing values “‹“‹and sharing a culture. It is to recognize that secularism is a demand for public power, that of absolute neutrality with regard to worship. It is also to remind that it is above all for everyone in the territory of the Republic a freedom, freedom of individual conscience, freedom to believe or not to believe, freedom to worship or follow none . The government will not accept that this founding principle is attacked, challenged or instrumentalised. He will make it respected without taking too much by being careful not to provoke, but with a firmness which rests on the simple idea that secularism is at bottom a condition of what we are, France.“Edouard Philippe the French PM stated--------------------------------CULTURE GATHERING AROUND THE LANGUAGE &THIS IS THE HERITAGE--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What brings us together is also culture, it is our language, it is our heritage, it is what we share, that is why France is admired and loved in the world, Is what hates the hate-bearers who repeatedly attacked our country. And if they hate this culture and this way of life, if they hate drawings, books, music and shows, they know that these are an inexhaustible source of reflection, emancipation And of happiness, they know that they are liberators. Let us not be mistaken, the training from the earliest age to culture and creation makes them free and familiar with the long history of the arts, by making them discover places of culture, teaching them to decipher the era And to discover our inheritance we raise the soul of our children and strengthen the cohesion of our country. Together with the Ministers of National Education and Culture, this work will be a common priority.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the same way, to read remains free, even more than under the ores of the palaces, the Republic lives in its libraries, we want to remain, perhaps again become a nation of readers by inspiring us the remarkable initiatives led by many associations or communities territorial. Access to works and creation is free, our time is changing the way art works are disseminated, it is both a chance and a challenge. Let us take advantage of this to facilitate the widest possible access to cultural property, including the creation of a "culture pass" for young people as proposed by the president. But let us also open the debate with digital giants in the European framework to ensure that artists have the means to live off their creations and to contribute to the financing of this access to works.“ Edouard Philippe stated. See the rest of statement on the following article, PART IV