The coronavirus thwarted the visit of Prime Minister Jean Castex, who was supposed to travel to Toulon this Friday to sign the State-Region future contract for the years 2021-2027 with the Region’s President Renaud Muselier. The regional assembly voted on this contract during their last meeting the previous day.
This “historic” contract, according to Renaud Muselier, the Region’s President, amounts to five billion euros (with the State providing 2.55 billion euros and the Region the other half).
The contract outlines twelve priorities: adapting the region to the energy and environmental climate transition (€513.68 million), territorial balance and solidarity (€707.6M), higher education, research, innovation, and education (€586.8M), health (€449.48M), tourism, the sea, and the coastline (€148.06M), culture (€93.6M), economic development (€85.4M), professional training and gender equality (€830.85M), a metropolitan section (€266.32M), the Alps massif (€122.16M), the Rhône development (€156.63M), and the reconstruction of the destroyed valleys of the Alpes-Maritimes (€307M).
This last section will provide significant support to the needs of municipalities heavily affected by the Alex storm.
