Emmanuelle Ducros 8:53 a.m., March 11, 2024

Every morning after the 8:30 a.m. news, Emmanuelle Ducros reveals to listeners her “Journey into absurdity”, from Monday to Thursday.

A hard candy to swallow.

The Zan law, zero net artificialization, passed in 2023 is being deployed.

And it tastes very bitter.

The goal of this 2023 law was to halve, then stop by 2050, the artificialization of land, for real estate or industrial construction.

A law which has a good intention, no doubt... but which has been drafted in a radical manner.

As soon as it was discussed, economic circles and mayors warned about its consequences.

Here we are.

An article published on the France 3 Midi-Pyrénées website summarizes the situation.

He talks about how the law is depriving Airbus and the entire aeronautical sector of development possibilities in the region, due to lack of land, with a risk of relocation.

The most ironic part of the affair is that the elected official who raised the alarm, the centrist deputy Jean-François Portarrieu, himself voted for the law.

He does not regret it, he says, he is even proud of it... But he still asked this question to the Government last week in the Assembly: "Airbus has recorded an exceptional order for 2,100 A320/A321 aircraft , many are assembled in Toulouse. Toulouse companies in the sector are faced with a new problem, with a lack of available land to develop."

Oh well, if we could have predicted it!

The elected official must have slept during the debates, because he told France 3: "I am alerting the government, but also the businesses in the region, so that they wake up. It should not be that, in 3 or 4 years, Airbus can no longer build an assembly line in Toulouse. “and MP Portarrieu quite candidly adds: “others will not hesitate to welcome them, China for example”.

That's true, why think about the consequences of your vote beforehand when you can complain afterwards.

Especially since it's not going to get better.

No.

The Zan law must be tightened.

It will be increasingly complicated for businesses to expand outside existing areas.

The problem, for many local elected officials, is that these wastelands have been taken over by the city and no one wants factories in the middle of houses anymore, it seems insoluble.

And besides, that also applies to housing.

In many regions, we are discovering the ravages of the law.

We no longer know where to put real estate projects.

And for Airbus, could things work out?

For now, the group seems to be able to do so by reorganizing its own sites, but that will have its limits.

It may also target certain land around Blagnac airport, but it is not certain that they will remain buildable for a long time.

There is little room for maneuver... Because I saved the best for last!

The State provides construction exemptions on 125,000 hectares for companies carrying out a “project of national interest”.

But the Airbus group, like the entire aeronautical industry, is not one of them.

Well yes, aeronautics, one of our top export positions, is not of national interest.