Paris (AFP)
Lower taxes or fuel check?
The government will announce "by the end of the week" a "simple, fair and effective" device to help the French face rising fuel prices, its spokesperson Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday.
"The last arbitrations are in progress. What matters for us is to make a decision and to have a measure which is simple, which is fair, and which is effective", he underlined on RTL to About these "protective measures" of consumers facing rising prices at the pump.
"It's a matter of days," he added, referring to a decision "by the end of the week".
"We are working on it, all avenues are on the table. There is the question of taxes, and the question of a check, of specific assistance for people who use their car and who suffer from this. increase, "he recalled.
Asked about a possible reduction in taxes, he repeated that there was "no excluded track".
As for a fuel check, "it is also a possibility".
"The ideal is to have direct help targeted to the people who need it," he said.
But he said "to also hear" the French who say they are "always above the thresholds" and ultimately not being able to benefit from direct aid.
"We want the most impacted French people to be able to be accompanied and helped in this moment of rising prices which is likely to last several months," he insisted.
In an attempt to appease the beginning of a rebellion in the face of soaring fuel prices in the wake of a rise in world prices, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire and the Minister of Energy Transition Barbara Pompili both mentioned Monday the trail of a fuel check, but also the obstacles to be lifted to set up such a device.
In the case of a check, the question is above all that it "can arrive as quickly as possible to the French" who need it, in particular underlined Mr. Le Maire.
"We don't have a database of people who need their car to go to work, for example," explained Ms. Pompili.
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