France: the assembly is working on the return of bistros and cafes in small municipalities

< IMG LOADING = "Lazy" SRSC = "/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Medium/2025-03/Mathieu%20thomasset%20hans%20Lucas%20via%20AFP.JPG ? Itok = PUQMMK2S" WIDTH = "1300" Height = "731" Alt = "Bistrot" Class = "Lazyload Img-Fluid Image-Style-Max-300x1300" SRC = "/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Max_1300x1300/Public/2025-03/Mathieu%20thomasset%20hans%20Lucas%20Via%20Afp.jpg ? Itok = F8PF9TXL"/> Thomasset Hans Lucas/AFP < P > drastically simplify the opening of bistros and cafes in French municipalities of less than 3,500 inhabitants who do not have them, it is the proposal that will discuss deputies on Monday, the debates having to give pride of particular to public health questions. & Amp; nbsp;

< P > 62 > 62 > 62 > 62 ~”Two-thirds of French municipalities today no longer have shops. Logically, even more, have neither a bistro nor a coffee,” worries Guillaume Kasbarian, the deputy of the presidential majority who will defend the text in the afternoon in the assembly. & Amp; nbsp;

62 ~ Very liberal policy proposes to set up a derogation which would allow to grant an IV license to open a bistro or a coffee. This license authorizes to sell and consume certain alcohols on site, including those with a rate greater than 18 degrees. & Amp; nbsp;

< P > The creation of licenses IV is now prohibited. An establishment which wishes to obtain one most often, after authorization from the prefect, acquire it from another establishment of the department or department neighboring, when the latter puts the key under the door for example. & Amp; nbsp;

< P >A “Stations of the Cross” according to M. Kasbarian. & Amp; nbsp;

< P > he wishes to establish his derogation in the municipalities of less than 3,500 inhabitants, thus taking up, and above all perpetuating, an experiment established at the end of 2019 for three years. & nbsp;

< P > The number of potential beneficiaries is difficult to determine: more than 31,000 municipalities in France (out of 35,000) have less than 3,500 inhabitants, according to the National Association of Mayors. But the derogation would only be worth for the municipalities which have no bistro or coffee already benefiting from a license IV. & Amp; nbsp;

< p > In committee, the debates first turned around public health risks, “alcohol (being) responsible for 41,000 premature deaths each year” Davi. & Amp; nbsp;

< P >“The cafes we are talking about are above all places of life, in very rural areas and in a society where the trend (…) is with withdrawal”, defended for its part Fabien di Filippo (republican right). & Amp; nbsp;

< p > A Church-Neuve-de-Vergt (South-West, 600 Mayor benefited from the experiment launched in 2019 to obtain a license IV. It allows the tavern of an tree climbing park to serve three months in the year, but it intends to make it available in the fall of a “rural multiple” mixing bar, grocery, relay parcels or bakery. & Amp; nbsp;

< p > “It has been a long time, or the last bistro. a closed 35-40 years ago “. & nbsp;

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