“Increasing levies” to rebalance the public accounts is “untenable”, the Prime Minister evacuated during a press conference devoted to the preparation of the 2026 budget.
While a conference on public finances is summoned this Tuesday, François Bayrou held a press briefing upstream, accompanied by several ministers, to make an inventory of the tricolor budgetary situation. “We are not working enough, we do not produce enough”said the Prime Minister, after a meeting of an budget alert committee. “We do not have enough resources because our country does not produce enough”hammered the centrist.
“The policy of returning production and reindustrialisation (…) must become an obsession for our nation”added the Prime Minister during a press conference devoted to the preparation of the 2026 budget. “If our production per capita was in the same range as that of our European neighbors, we would not have a budget deficit”he said again, also deploring “A lower employment rate” among young people and seniors.
“The excess of public spending is not happiness”
“There are hours of decisive truth and it is one”judged the tenant of Matignon. “Our conviction (…) is that only an awareness of our fellow citizens, only the confrontation with the eyes open with the truth of our situation, can support a determined action. Nothing would be possible without their support and support will only come from their full information ”said the Prime Minister.
The mayor of Pau also recalled that France was “The country of the world spending the most public money”. Yet, “Many more developed countries than us from the point of view of the development of their citizens (…) have greatly reduced their expenses when they have been threatened with imbalances”he assured, for whom therefore “The excess of public spending is not happiness”.
François Bayrou has also alerted to the debt, “A dangerous, potentially irreversible trap”, “Unacceptable because we will not be able to support the load permanently” who could “Reach 100 billion euros in 2029”. “This risk is politically unbearable, but more deeply still is morally unacceptable, because the responsibility of any woman or any politician extends to future generations”he said.
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However, “Increase the samples” to rebalance public accounts is “Untenable”evacuated the executive chief on Tuesday. “How to rebalance?” (…) The first solution would be to think that if the state has no more money in its boxes, it is enough to increase the samples. It is a reasoning which seems simple but which is untenable, because France is already the country which holds the rate of compulsory levies, taxes and taxes of all kinds in the world in 2024 “said the Prime Minister, judging that “If we choose to continue to increase these samples, it is our country which, in the end, would suffer”. According to François Bayrou, France is already “At the edge of an over -indebtedness situation”.
Instead, Matignon tenant exposed the four «orientations» of his government: “Independence in security and defense”, “The refusal of over -indebtedness”, “The refoundation of public action” and the “Relaunch (de) the economic activity of the country”.
Ces “Great guidelines” et “Large choices” Will be detailed before July 14, said François Bayrou, wishing to accelerate the 2026 budget preparation calendar. “We decided to go faster, take the lead, choose a much more ambitious and more demanding calendar”said the Prime Minister, recalling that it is usually “In September” What are revealed the major orientations of the upcoming budget. “This calendar, it will make it possible to bring together all the contributions, all the suggestions, all the consultations for a few weeks around the future and the choices that we will have to make”he said.
