Social diversity: measures a minimum of Valls – BBC

The Prime Minister presented a plan to develop social diversity to fight against “social apartheid” in neighborhoods.

While two months have passed since the attacks, magic January 11 hardly breath in the country. Manuel Valls seeks to revive her. At each of the meetings in which it participates to the next county. And especially in the action that led to the head of government.

On Friday, at the end of an interdepartmental committee called “equality, citizenship, Republic acts”, the Prime Minister announced no less than sixty measures meant to create greater social diversity in neighborhoods to fight against the “territorial apartheid, social and ethnic” he had denounced in January, then incurring the wrath of the right and part of the left . In his greetings to the press, he had made the observation that “social misery” with which “add up the daily discrimination because it has the wrong name, the right color, or well because you are a woman. ” A situation which, in his view, carries with it the germs of Islamist radicalization and, beyond, the French company crack.

Sixty therefore measures to overcome all these ills. The thick press kit distributed to reporters swept many areas: education course, but also the sport and culture that the Prime Minister wants to see develop in neighborhoods, secularism he wants back in the saddle without up to the headscarf ban in universities, places and symbols of the French Republic must reclaim the fight against discrimination, housing, access to care.

The exercise was constrained and Manuel Valls does not deluded.

There are here and there of the measures already known, particularly when the Premier recycles announcements made by the President on education, when it comes to the fight against child support delinquency being tested since 1 October 2014 or to the presence of women on boards of Directors. Manuel Valls, who was for eleven years mayor of Evry, also like the neighborhood residents seize on these topics. For this reason it will launch before the summer, a debate in the neighborhoods. It is necessary, he has said, “their inhabitants seize their destiny.”

This package of measures that Matignon curiously chosen to present a Friday late afternoon any risk give it very little echo, also includes innovations. Particularly in the area of ​​social housing. Valls has decided to respond positively to the request of a number of suburban mayors of cities, weary of having to accommodate in difficult neighborhoods of families enjoying the right to housing (DALO). “Stop, said the premier, adding poverty to poverty!” Also new is the ability for employees Suffering from discrimination at work to engage in group action against an employer in the private sector or the public sector . “This mode of collective legal actions also concern discrimination in public functions”, is it stated in the press release. The law should be voted “current 2015″.

His plan also calls into question the “language teaching and culture of origin” (ELCO), introduced at the start as “language support” to return to land of the children of migrants, but the government acknowledges that they “do not contribute to the integration” of the descendants of migrants in France. The UMP Bruno Le Maire has made this her pet.

The exercise was constrained and Manuel Valls does not deluded. Without fiscal space, it can hardly give energy to their anti-apartheid plan. “If we look at the measures announced today, is probably the next three years around a billion euros,” he clarified, however. The Prime Minister calls for “modesty”, admitting willingly, as it does for months that overcoming such a site requires “a long time”. “You have the means but do not rule with millions.”