Back to school is looming for everyone, including the executive. After his return from Fort Brégançon, Emmanuel Macron will have to manage large files, first and foremost the rebound of the coronavirus epidemic and the start of the school year. For this first week, the executive has chosen to postpone the announcement of the recovery plan to focus on the health situation. 

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For once the expression is not overused ... The return to school promises to be at very high risk for the French government and for the entire country. Several big subjects will occupy the members of the executive including a possible second wave of the coronavirus epidemic, the start of the school year and the economic crisis which is beginning to emerge. While the government's 100 billion euro stimulus package was expected for Tuesday, its presentation is finally postponed by a week because of this busy schedule.

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The majority "should have been on the offensive"

However, everything was ready, until the press kit on the recovery plan to be distributed to journalists. This postponement gives an impression of feverishness, deplores a macronist who believes that the majority "should have been on the offensive". "There, we will be on the defensive on a subject that we do not control," he said again.

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But the week will above all be devoted to the health situation: protocol at school, wearing of a mask in companies, situation in certain departments ... President Emmanuel Macron has decided to give priority to the epidemic.

"Turn up the sauce" on the recovery plan

In addition, the executive realized, via opinion studies, that the French hardly knew the existence of the recovery plan. A minister therefore hopes "to be able to raise the sauce this week". Jean Castex, the Prime Minister, will be in front of the Medef on Wednesday, for example.

What about the promise of a first week in September devoted to the economy? "I find it hard to believe", blows a counselor, "that the day of the start of the school year we manage to talk about something other than the start of the school year".