The budgetary marathon begins this Monday in the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon. And the debates around the 2023 budget promise to be tumultuous, while the government threatens to draw 49.3. The deputies will therefore consider a text that the executive is already preparing to pass without a vote, for lack of an absolute majority for the macronists. The session should open at 4 p.m. with the intervention of the ministers and the various political groups. Then the Assembly will begin, probably on Tuesday, to tackle the more than 3,000 amendments tabled on this first part of the finance bill (PLF), which includes in particular a “tariff shield” of 45 billion euros against the explosion of energy prices.
Justice opens this Monday the trial of an air disaster which made 228 victims. On June 1, 2009, flight AF447 between Rio de Janeiro and Paris crashed in the middle of the night in the Atlantic, 3 hours 45 minutes after takeoff. The investigating chamber pronounced last year the dismissal for involuntary homicides of Air France and Airbus before the court. During this trial, which should last two months, the two companies incur a fine of 225,000 euros.
While at 3 p.m. on Sunday, 29.7% of service stations in France lacked at least one fuel, the Prime Minister wanted to reassure motorists. According to Elisabeth Borne, fuel supply tensions at service stations will “improve throughout the week” as “deliveries” arrive, in particular from French “strategic stocks”. On the same day, TotalEnergies offered to bring forward its annual wage negotiations to October, responding to the outstretched hand of the CGT, provided that the blockages end in refineries and fuel depots. Another sign of improvement: Esso-ExxonMobil intends to bring the unions together on Monday.