The report is alarmist. According to a report from the Senate's overseas delegation, the economic crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic promises to be "devastating for all of overseas territories". "The instantaneous losses of activity during confinement are estimated at 30% for all of the Overseas Territories, which is unprecedented", and the overseas economies find themselves "confronted with a threat of collapse if appropriate measures and are not quickly adopted, ”insist the authors of the text.
National economic emergency measures apply in principle to the overseas territories. But Stéphane Artano (RDSE, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), Viviane Artigalas (Socialist and republican, Hautes-Pyrénées) and Nassimah Dindar (Union centriste, La Réunion) stress that "the high proportion of very small businesses and one-person businesses in overseas, the traditional reluctance of the banking system, the percentage of companies already in great difficulty and statutory differences tend to exclude in practice whole swathes of activities from the benefit of national solidarity measures ”.
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The authors recommend, for example, to "strengthen the health autonomy" of each territory, to adopt different health protocols according to local situations, and to allow, for the Overseas who wish, to "test the populations upon their arrival at the airport ".
The State invited to always take care of partial unemployment "at 100%"
They also recommend "to perpetuate the assumption of partial unemployment at 100% by the State in particular for overseas companies threatened with bankruptcy", and "to extend the device of the Solidarity Fund in the Overseas Territories until the exit crisis and cancel the social debts in 2020 of companies in the most fragile sectors ”.
The authors also ask for aid measures for certain "levers sectors" of overseas economies, such as air transport, essential for opening up the territories ("an emergency support fund for overseas airlines"), or tourism, but also for the agriculture and fishing sector, and the construction industry.
They recommend avenues of "resilience" for the future: reduce dependence on France and aim for food self-sufficiency, develop digital technology by making Overseas digital free zones, invest in the blue economy and biodiversity .
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