Coronavirus: The commission on the future of public finances installed Friday by Jean Castex (Archives) -

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Jean Castex will install the commission on the future of public finances on Friday, responsible in particular for making proposals to the government on the repayment of the debt resulting from the coronavirus crisis, with the constraint of not increasing taxes, Matignon assured Thursday.

This commission, the principle of which was announced in early November by the Minister of Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt, will be chaired by former Minister Jean Arthuis, we told Matignon.

Laurence Parisot and Marisol Touraine in the commission

The identity of several of its ten members had already been revealed at the end of November: Laurence Parisot, the former president of Medef, the socialist Marisol Touraine, former Minister of Social Affairs and Health under François Hollande, but also the CEO of Paris Airport Augustin de Romanet, the Director General of INSEE Jean-Luc Tavernier and the Italian-Swiss economist Beatrice Weder di Mauro, who notably advised the German Chancellors Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel.

Four other people therefore come to join them: the economist Hélène Rey, the former Deputy Director General of the ECB Natacha Valla, the magistrate at the Court of Auditors Raoul Briet, also former director of social security, and finally the Austrian Thomas Wieser, who held several positions in Brussels within the Eurogroup.

Proposals expected at the end of February

Experts will have to make their proposals by the end of February so that the government can take it up as part of the transmission to Brussels of its budgetary stability program and the preparation of the 2022 budget.

"It is a work of anticipation" while the state apparatus is still mobilized on the management of the crisis in an emergency, we assure Bercy.

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