Posted on May 02, 2025 at 6:26 pm. / Modified May 02, 2025 at 18:27.
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The canton of the Jura must urgently invest to get out of the rut. This is (very) summarized the conclusion of a 48 -page report presented this Friday by the Jura Government, which relies on the recommendations of three external experts mandated to restore a budgetary balance undermined for years. These investments must be used to modernize the management, structure and management of the State by 2029 (2 to 3 million francs from a fund to be created), as well as to redeploy municipal structures (7 to 8 million covered by equalization) by going from 51 to 7 or 8 administrative units, Moutier included.
For experts-Jean Studer, former Councilor of State Neuchâtel and president of the Swiss National Bank, Pierre-Olivier Chave, Entrepreneur Neuchâtel, and Thierry Bregnard, professor at the Haute Ecole de Gestion Arc and former head of the Jura service-the arrival of the Cité Provôtoise in the Jura constitutes “a unique opportunity to give a new dynamic to the Jura family.” But to have a lasting impact, “the efforts to be made must have a structural character […]. Otherwise, the financial difficulties are recurrent ”and give birth to painful economy programs every year.
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