Paris (AFP)

"Relocating strategic productions to Europe", better "protecting" young or elderly dependent people or "accelerating the ecological transition": LREM MEPs unveiled their contribution to the "after" coronavirus on Monday, after an internal consultation.

These 30 proposals will be shared during the week with the Head of State and the President of the Assembly, said the leader of the LREM group Gilles Le Gendre, in order to contribute to reflection on the rest of the quinquennium.

They are ranked in order of priority, after an internal vote from Tuesday to Friday. At the top of the vote, a call to "relocate strategic production, notably health and agricultural production, to Europe", after the controversies over the shortage of masks during the crisis.

The "walkers" emphasize "European sovereignty" and also ask to "strengthen European cooperation in the fight against tax fraud" (proposal 4) or to "support the European Commission's proposal to issue 'a long term loan of 100 billion euros financed by a carbon border tax and a GAFAM tax "(proposition 5).

Second most supported proposal: "act for professional integration and employment of young people".

The majority deputies want in particular to "simplify" learning; increase the "hiring bonus for apprentices"; "extend the system of open jobs" or "create a device to assist mobility for young job seekers".

The "walkers" also mention their support for "the creation of a universal income from activity (RUA), extended to 18-25 year olds", but without making it one of their 30 concrete proposals.

Third measure, the "revaluation of the professions of old age by the opening of posts", and a "revalorization of wages". The deputies push for the "reform of dependency", by also facilitating the "establishment of hospitalization at home" (proposition 6).

They insist on the central place of the "territories" for "after" and plead for "the acceleration of the ecological transition".

The first ecological proposal only came in ninth position, however, by supporting "an ambitious energy renovation policy" for housing, a "major subject", according to "walker" Bénédicte Peyrol, who coordinated the work.

"We cannot look only according to the hierarchy of the votes" and it is on "this niche" of ecology, that "the acceleration and the transformation of the group are most manifest", assures Gilles Le Gendre, the day after the conclusions of the citizens' convention on the climate.

These 30 proposals, "these are great principles, it lacks concrete", laments a walker. "It's a bit of a must. I don't see any reason to upset the crowds," added another.

At the same time, 265 parliamentarians from the majority co-signed a platform in Le Monde, launched by LREM MEP Pascal Canfin and Jean-Charles Colas-Roy MP, to "go further and even faster in order to to act in response to the ecological emergency ".

The deputies of the Agir ensemble group presented on their side ten "extremely concrete" measures to "rebuild a new project of society", their president Olivier Becht praising at a press point a "disruptive" project.

The new group notably suggests launching a "Green New Deal" to transform the productive system, or the establishment of an "environmental and social bonus-penalty" at the border of Europe.

It also proposes the establishment of a "universal CDI" portable from one company to another, a "citizen base" of income, or even a "local public service guarantee".

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