AFP - Friday, November 9, 8:47 p.m.
PARIS (AFP) - The House Friday passed the 2008 budget of the mission Ecology (10.149 billion euros), by calling Jean-Louis Borloo (Ecology) on means of implementation of the Grenelle Environment Forum.
UMP voted for the SRC (Socialists, Radicals Citizens) and the GDR (Communist and Green) voted against. New center was absent for the vote.
Minister of Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo defended a "transition budget positive" explaining that "the major decisions of the post-Grenelle are not impacted." He stressed that his budget "increased by 2.5%" and it "prepares the future by focusing on capital expenditure with the operation.
The PS has lambasted the lack of "budget line in anticipation of the financing of the first actions that could be implemented from fiscal year 2008.
Catherine Coutelle (PS) cited the Senate Finance Committee which, in a statement, expressed "concern at the lack of translation and financial budget of the Grenelle Environment.
Floor Bertrand (UMP) responded that the budget has been "drawn up in June" and therefore "can not account for proposals issued in October.
But Maxime Bono (PS): "This budget could be the outline of an inflection. He could join the emerging consensus born from June, groups working on the Round Table." "We announced a budget of transition but it is the inertia that comes to mind, with a notable absentee: urban transit," he said.
The Minister has received unexpected support from bayrou Jean Lassalle (Modem): "You have a lot of credit for having something out of the Grenelle of the environment and especially to be living out of the house because" there were lots of roosters, "he said. Jean-Christophe Lagarde
(New Centre) said that his group is "vigilant about finding articulation between programs and engaged with the new guidelines" Grenelle.
Yves Cochet (Green) has "learned that not everything is budgeted at once" while Francis de Rugy (Greens) has held that "the speeches were in progress but the acts were made to wait."
"It is unfortunate that this budget is not the first concrete step of the green revolution," he lamented.
Jean-Jacques Guillet (UMP), for its part launched the idea of an international conference on energy efficiency in the second half of 2008 when France will chair the European Union.
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