“FRANCE RELANCE” RECOVERY PLAN OVERSEAS: THE STATE MUST GO FURTHER TO BETTER RESPOND TO LOCAL REALITIES

In its opinion on the Recovery Plan and its territorial application in the French overseas territories of January 2021, the ESEC called for a real territorialisation via recovery plans, each with dedicated budgets and serving as release mechanisms for profound economic, social and environmental transformations. One year on, the ESEC notes that the first stage of the plan has been successful, with a budgetary promise kept, but with responses that are too fragmented to meet people’s needs. Territorialisation can be improved both in terms of its methods and its aims, and it will be difficult to achieve the objectives of ecological transition and social cohesion in particular;