2030 Winter Olympics: Government relocates to Briançon and presents its priorities for the Games in the French Alps

Briançon, at the heart of the Winter Games in the French Alps for a day. It was in the small sub-prefecture of the Hautes-Alpes that François Bayrou chaired, on Friday, June 27, the first interministerial committee on the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Marie Barsacq (Minister of Sports), Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq (Disability), Nathalie Delattre (Tourism) and Philippe Tabarot (Transport), but also by Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, former Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games elected, on Thursday, June 19, at the head of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee , and the former tenant of Matignon, Michel Barnier, tasked with providing support for the project.

After visiting the Fort des Têtes, a former military garrison that is to be transformed, through extensive renovation work, into an Olympic village, the government team presented its priorities for the French Alps in Briançon – one of the four competition zones in 2030.

The head of government signed a memorandum of understanding, which complements, in terms of transport, the State-Region Plan contract with Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA). Funded to the tune of more than €350 million by the State, the region, and the Hautes-Alpes department, it provides for the renovation of road and rail services, including the Briançon-Marseille line – which, according to the government, has suffered from public underinvestment "for several decades" – and the Veynes "star" (Hautes-Alpes), a rail hub for lines from Valence, Marseille, and Grenoble to Gap and Briançon.

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