Cyril Chabanier, president of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC), said Monday April 14 on Franceinfo, that he will be “complicated” to find additional 40 billion euros “Without having some strong measures and in particular on companies and on the highest wages”. Sunday, the Minister of Public Accounts Amélie de Montchalin confirmed on France Inter and Franceinfotv the“40 billion effort” euros in savings for the 2026 budget, announced a little earlier by the Minister of Economy Eric Lombard, in order to maintain the objective of reducing the deficit to 4.6% of GDP in 2026. It however specified that“There is no strategy to increase the taxes of French, popular classes and middle classes”.
On the side of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier affirms that“We will have to wonder about 200 billions of aid to companies paid without any conditionality, without any evaluation of their effectiveness “. “We are not against businesses but it has been months and months that we claim the evaluation, an audit, because if we found that 10% of these aids were not effective, it is nearly 20 billion euros that enter the boxes”underlines the union official.
His second priority concerns dividends, “In a time when we see that employment is experiencing difficulties, that social plans restart” : “I remind you that 2024 is the record year of dividend payments, with nearly 100 billions of euros in dividends paid, in particular 70 billions just in CAC companies 40. Again, there may be efforts to make. “
Cyril Chabanier abounds in the sense of the Minister of the Economy according to whom it is necessary “Spend better”. “It is not necessarily the time to lower investments, France needs to reindustrialize, to finance its ecological transition, its digital transition, the expenditure effort that must be made. On all these themes, it is necessary to invest strongly because they are sectors with strong possible growth, therefore significant money back. It is one of the tracks that was mentioned: that these 40 billions are found through improving growth. In any case, we must not slash on sectors in difficulty such as education or health, which would be misunderstood by our fellow citizens “declares the president of the CFTC.
Another important subject: “Do not touch the dreamsNaked medium or even modest, which are already a lot punctuated today. ” According to him, it is also necessary “Work on the employment rate”notably “Improve the employment of seniors and the employment of young people”.
While the CFTC is part of the conclave on pensions, its president ensures that“We must return to the pension reform”. The proposal of the CFTC ? “Slightly increase the contribution rate”with an increase in contribution of around 6 euros per employee on the employers side and the same thing on the employee side, modulated according to the salary: this would garner 10 billion euros. “We absolutely want to come back to the 64 ans”he reaffirms, evoking 62 or 63 years.
