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The European elections start on Thursday 23 May in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The vote will then be spread over four days for the twenty-eight countries of the Union. In metropolitan France, it will be Sunday, May 26th. The campaign was mainly played on the confrontation between pro-European parties and populist nationalist parties, sometimes at the expense of the substance and programs of each. What about for example economic proposals? Overview of the main proposals of the main lists.
The lists of the Republic in progress, the party of Emmanuel Macron, and the National Rally, the party of Marine Le Pen, are far ahead of the others in the polls. The Renaissance list, supported by the President of the Republic and led by Nathalie Loiseau, first proposes a European tax on the digital giants . France has just created this tax on its territory. A "sub-tax" in fact, because it does not attack the tax evasion practices of Google et al, but has the merit to exist, while elsewhere in Europe it blocks: Nathalie Loiseau wants to extend the device to the whole Union. On the energy front, she says she wants to invest 1,000 billion euros in five years to develop clean energy and transport. Accuracy: For the presidential party, nuclear power is clean energy because it does not emit carbon dioxide.
In front of her is the list conducted by Jordan Bardella, for the National Rally, former National Front. His program mainly concerns the control of migrants, but on the economic level, he wants to reduce the contribution of France to the budget of the Union. Logic, for a eurosceptic party. France is contributing more than 21 billion euros to the common budget; it is also one of the main beneficiaries of European spending - by 15 billion - and its contribution, proportionally to the number of inhabitants, is much less than that of the Swedes of the Dutch or Germans, to name but a few.
Seconded workers
Jordan Bardella has another proposal, shared by other parties: the repeal of the Posted Workers Directive. This directive allows a company to send an employee to another country of the Union for a temporary period, keeping it under the national social system. The text is accused of putting Western and Eastern European employees in competition with each other; it is true that, despite several amendments, it still gives rise to numerous abuses recently reported by the Court of Auditors. The National Assembly therefore calls for its repeal, this is also the case of the sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan or Xavier Bellamy, head of the list of Republicans, who proposes a "true revision" of this text. Protectionist assumed, Bellamy also wants to establish a dual preference, European and French, for the award of public contracts.
European minimum wage
The repeal of the Posted Workers Directive is not demanded by the right-wing parties alone. France Insoumise, the extreme left-wing party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, headed by Manon Aubry, also demands it. Manon Aubry even proposes to end the liberal rules of the Union and, for this purpose, to leave current treaties. This requires the unanimity of the member countries. She also wants the creation of a European minimum wage. Just like Raphaël Glucksman , who leads the common list Place Public-Socialist Party, and who also offers a VAT at 0% on basic necessities, or the creation of a European corporate tax to finance the ecological transition. Similar proposal at Yannick Jadot, Europe-Ecology-the Greens (EELV), which also wants to tackle lobbies, these private interests that influence the decisions of the Union, and the tax evasion of multinationals. He also advocates a tax on harmful products in the name of "green protectionism".