douard philippe: Hours earlier, the prime minister, douard Philippe, had said his government was prepared to reconsider the tax if other solutions could be found to make the transition to cleaner fuel without hitting people in their pockets, as he spoke to MPs during a debate on next year's finance bill in the Assembl e Nationale, according to The Guardian. In a statement on Wednesday evening, the Elys e said that Philippe and the president, Emmanuel Macron, both wished the increase in the carbon tax be removed from the budget for 2019. Just a day after announcing a six-month freeze on the eco-tax, the Elys e Palace declared it was dropping the measure from the 2019 budget. The citizen and parliamentary debate in the coming weeks and months will have to find solutions and funding that will meet the challenges of the ecological transition; solutions that will preserve the purchasing power of our citizens, it added. He told me People have the impression there's some sort of trick, that it has been suspended but it will come back afterwards.' Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emmanuel Macron inspects the aftermath of protests in Paris. Fran ois de Rugy, the minister for ecological change, told a French TV news channel he had spoken to Macron to confirm that the eco-tax had been cancelled for the year 2019 . De Rugy added I had the president on the telephone a few minutes ago.
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