FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 193: LEGISLATORS MOVE ENERGY, PURCHASING POWER LAWS, GASOLINE SUBSIDIES TO INCREASE

 

(MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES LIKE FRANCE 24, BFM-TV USED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS POST)

                             YELLOW VESTS MARCH IN PARIS 7/23/2022

A marathon session for lawmakers in France's National Assembly from Thursday into Friday a host of contentious issues on the table.

A compromise reached with less powerful French Senate that will give the government the ability to impose COVID control measures on France's borders.

Last week the National Assembly ditched the notion of vaccine passports and other domestic emergency measures and powers to deal with COVID and ended up gutting all COVID restrictions the government wanted to get some powers back but only got the ability to impose COVID rules on the border.

Energy and purchasing power on the table with energy prices soaring amidst a tightening of energy supplies and fears of a Russian cutoff of natural gas which has not materialized yet.

To the consternation of the Left a majority of lawmakers voting to allow coal-fired power plants to be restarted in France and to speed up development of a facility off the coast to import Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) into the country.

Some government benefits paid out to the French are going to be increased amidst the inflationary pressures with lawmakers approving a four percent increase in benefits including pensions.

The government has told the lawmakers its goal in the coming years is to limit spending increases to an average of .6 percent per year.

In the heat in the summer Yellow Vests on the streets in Paris again today.   This video takes a lighter look at the protest using fruits, humor and magic tricks...VIDEO STREAM

Here is today's live video stream from Paris...VIDEO STREAM YELLOW VESTS PROTEST PARIS WEEK 193 7/23/2022

Another from Paris today showing the protest in the streets...

And no doubt concerned about protests over fuel prices, energy prices and the dangerous months ahead France's Minister of the Economy today announced the 18 cents a liter gasoline price subsidy of the government will rise to 30 cents a liter this fall.

"Total" one of major operators of gasoline stations in France, also planning a 20 cents a liter price subsidy of its own in the coming months.

For now that is the story of France and the Yellow Vests.

                      

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