Question 17699 — foreign policy

Summary

Ms. Anne-Cécile Violland draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the persistent blockage of credits for the “Public Development Assistance” (ODA) mission and to its consequences for French humanitarian action and the associative fabric of international solidarity. The finance law for 2026 set the credits for the ODA mission at 3.6 billion euros, a decrease of 59% on a like-for-like basis compared to 2024, an unprecedented reduction for this policy. Five months after the adoption of this budget, a large part of these funds remains frozen, in particular those intended for civil society. This situation was aggravated by the Prime Minister's instruction sent on June 16, 2026 to the ministries and agencies concerned, announcing a "strategic review" and centralizing within his cabinet the arbitration of any new financial commitment of the State in terms of ODA. On July 2, 2026, an open letter signed by 144 parliamentarians and 393 associations, foundations and unions was addressed to him as well as to the Minister of Public Accounts, to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs and to the Director General of the French Development Agency (AFD), all three recipients of the instruction of June 16. If the unblocking and notification of all the resources intended for the AFD, including the NGO donation managed by the Agency, constitute a welcome step forward, all of the other financing lines carried by budgetary programs n° 209 "Solidarity with regard to developing countries", n° 110 "Economic and financial aid for development" and n° 384 remain blocked, without any release timetable being communicated. This situation has concrete consequences immediate, almost all of France's emergency humanitarian action is now suspended. The systematic validation procedure for any new project or commitment also suggests an extension of these blockages, as well as arbitrations which deviate from the priorities of the solidarity development policy unanimously adopted by Parliament in programming law no. 2021-1031 of August 4, 2021. relating to inclusive development and the fight against global inequalities. Consequently, it asks it to specify the timetable for releasing the credits included in the initial finance law for 2026 under programs 209, 110 and 384, up to the amounts voted by Parliament, to kindly indicate to it the modalities and the timetable of the “strategic review” announced on June 16, 2026, as well as the governing criteria. to the arbitrations made by her office on new financial commitments and to guarantee that the orientations of the public development aid policy will remain in line with the priorities set by the law of August 4, 2021. Finally, she wishes to know if it is possible to specify the means which will be allocated to the ODA mission as part of the preparation of the finance bill for 2027.

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