The back-to-school bell will ring this Wednesday for the executive.

The Council of Ministers is indeed meeting at the Elysee Palace, in a climate filled with uncertainty linked to the war in Ukraine, climate change and inflation, pending parliamentary hostilities which will not resume until October.

After three weeks at Fort de Brégançon, Emmanuel Macron therefore meets his government, the day after a working dinner, Tuesday evening, with Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne to address the main priorities for the start of the school year.

Macron in Algeria on Thursday

The presidential agenda remains largely occupied by international issues.

In recent days, Emmanuel Macron has spoken with Ukrainian and Russian Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, but also with American, British and German leaders about the war.

And Thursday, the day after the Council of Ministers, he will be in Algeria for a three-day visit.

But from Bormes-les-Mimosas in the Var, during a commemoration speech, Emmanuel Macron also seemed to set the tone for a potentially complicated return to France.

After denouncing the Russian "brutal attack" in Ukraine, he called on the French to "face the coming time, resist uncertainties" and "accept to pay the price for our freedom and our values".

Remarks "extraordinarily worrying, anxiety-provoking", judged the deputy LR Eric Ciotti, while inflation is on everyone's mind.

The summer period was also marked by a succession of climatic dramas, from drought to fires to deadly storms in Corsica.

“This summer has accumulated everything (…) We have all touched on what the word “climate change” means and causes in our daily lives”, summed up the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran.

It is therefore time for "general mobilization" with a watchword, "energy sobriety", according to the president's entourage.

Terminal at the Medef back-to-school university

"Sovereignty", the "battle for the climate" and "equal opportunities" are also the priorities for this back-to-school period, which the executive is tackling "with serenity, as soon as there is a clear course, consistency and constancy in the action taken", according to the same source.

The energy transition will thus figure prominently in the discourse of the government, which will present a bill to accelerate renewable energies in the fall.

A government seminar in particular devoted to ecology will also be held next week, and the Prime Minister must also devote a speech to it at the Medef back-to-school university.

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Dinner between Macron and Borne Tuesday evening at the Elysée, before the Council of Ministers back to school

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Emmanuel Macron and the government are preparing for a turbulent return

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