What's new: the “under control” coronavirus crisis in France

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By: Norbert Navarro

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It is the president of the Scientific Council which declares it to the newspaper Le Parisien . "  Unless there is an exceptional event, the situation is under control for the next few weeks, or even summer,  " says Jean-François Delfraissy. But "  we must remain vigilant,  " he hastens to add in the columns of the Parisian, because five pandemics of respiratory viruses out of ten "  recur in the fall,  " he adds.

Without waiting, the executive is working to repair the economic damage of this pandemic, with first measures for youth, strongly impacted by the health crisis:

"  Young people on the front line  ", the Parisian newspaper launches , a daily in which the Secretary of State for Youth presents the main lines of the "  global plan for young people  " that the government must present at the end of June, saying that there will be no "  generation sacrificed,  " says Gabriel Attal to the Parisian.

Pro domo plea in addition to the presentation yesterday at the Elysée Palace of the first provisions of this plan for young people, which were announced in the presence of President Macron and Prime Minister Philippe at the start of discussions with employers and unions on this plan to come.

Main measure announced: for eight months, companies which will hire a minor in apprenticeship will receive 5,000 euros, and 8,000 euros if it is a major.

Be careful, warns Liberation, "  France does not yet measure the violence of the social shock that awaits it  ". And for the executive, it is a “double challenge”. 1) The urgency of a "  return to normal activity  ", that is to say growth, essential "  lifeline  ", admits Libé. 2) "  At the same time as the recovery, (the) conversion of sectors with a high carbon footprint, (and massive investment) in renewable energies  ". In other words the squaring of the circle.

The government's plan will wait until the end of June, after the second round of municipal elections, but also before a possible cabinet reshuffle

According to a minister quoted by Le Figaro , "  the president will take a political initiative, then he will translate it by a change of team  ". As the newspaper puts it , "  while Emmanuel Macron must regain control, many expect a upheaval and the creation of a" campaign government "  ".

Only here, "  the reshuffle, it begins to weigh. This wait should not last too long ...  ", impatient a minister in Le Figaro , in whose columns another member of the government confesses:"  There is a tension, especially personal. We wonder what we are going to do on July 1st  ”.

Luxembourg's past of Secretary of State Djebbari

This case now, which concerns Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. Before being a deputy, the current secretary of state for transport was the chief pilot of the private aviation company Jetfly, which in France did not pay the social security contributions of its pilots living in France. According to Mediapart, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari "  was at the heart of a system of social dumping implemented by this airline in Luxembourg  ". As this online journal noted, "  at least thirty-four (Jetfly pilots) are French and live (in France). However, none of these pilots are salaried in France and pay their social contributions there, even though about twenty of them operate mainly from the national territory  ”. And France is "  by far, the country most served by (this) company for fifteen years  ".

Jean-Baptiste Djebbari told Mediapart "  that he was only responsible for the" security "of the flights and of the flight operations control center, but not for the definition of the schedules. He indicates that he was "not in charge of the social, fiscal and human resources management" of Jetfly and that he had "no regulatory or operational responsibility" on these subjects, which were "the sole responsibility of the general management  ”.

However, the Secretary of State is also a "  judicial expert in matters of concealed work  ". This is what Mediapart recalls , by pointing out a European legal provision according to which “  any employee domiciled in a Member State (must be) affiliated to the social security of that State, as soon as he exercises a“ substantial part of his activity there. […] Without necessarily being the major part  ”.

For its part, a source in the entourage of the Secretary of State quoted by Agence France Presse states that " the company has made its position precisely stated  in the article, Mediapart makes a different interpretation of it (and that) The Minister was neither manager, nor shareholder, nor in charge of the social or fiscal policy of the company, he was in charge of the pilots on the operational plan  ”, according to this source quoted by AFP.

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