François Bayrou

François Bayrou

His program: "La France solidaire"

François Bayrou has called his program "La France solidaire" - The United France. He wants French people to be united around the great values of France, i.e. liberty, equality and fraternity, to overcome the crisis. French people are responsible for their destiny. His program has three main axes:

1) Re-establish the public finance. Aim: to reduce spending by 50 billion of euros and increase revenues by 50 billion, in order to re-equilibrate the budget. For that purpose, he wants to

- Maintain the level of the public spending  in 2013 and 2014 at the level of the expenditure in 2012

- Re-examine all the missions and the organization of the State (subsidiaries…)

- Strike a deal of financial moderation with local authorities, clarify the skills and equivocate some services

- Strenghten and rationalize some national health insurance spending (re-organization of services and sickness benefits)

- Abolish some tax breaks, such as the tax of revenue break for additional hours 

- Increase the VAT by one point in 2012

- Change the name of wealth tax

- Create a tax on the international financial transactions with the European partners

- Implement a High Authority to watch tax evasion.

2) Product

- Create a production-friendly environment by implementing a National Strategies Office, simplifying administrative strains for companies, matching big companies and small businesses and adding a financial tool for small businesses

- Create a label "Made in France"

- Support social economy by giving it access to public procurement.and promoting social innovation. Modulate taxing on companies that make effort on social responsability

- Create an independent economic zona in the Internet

- Revamp social dialog between employers and employees

- Support professional training which enables first job

- Create an agriculture competitive, preserved and durable by defending farmers who are producers, paying well them, and obtaining a environmental friendly agriculture, as well as redynamise food processing industries.

- Having a finance in favour of real economy by studying the separation between savings banks and investment banks and struggling against tax havens

- Funding the environmental friendly policies by creating an investment fund dedicated to sustainable development

3) Teach

- Define learning rules

- Maintain the number of teachers

- Dedicate 50% of the work in elementary schools to French lessons

- Reorganize school time for artistic activities

- Reestablish history and geography in terminal S

- For the parents, create an associative school to help those in difficulty in backing their child

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