François Bayrou estimated, Tuesday, April 15, that“Increase the samples” in France to restore the finances of the country would be “Untenable”. He spoke after the meeting of a “budget alert committee” summoned to Matignon. Under the threat of censorship in the Assembly, the Prime Minister wonders how to achieve 40 billion euros in savings in 2026. “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“Taxes, he said during a speech exposing the economic situation of France. But he judges this solution “Untenable, because France is already the country which holds the rate of compulsory levies, taxes and taxes of any highest kind in the world in 2024”. Follow our direct.
“We do not produce enough and we do not work enough” estimates François Bayrou. In his speech, the Prime Minister judged that “Only an awareness of our fellow citizens” on the economic and budgetary situation could “Support a determined action” recovery of public accounts.
The government wants to make “40 billion euros in additional efforts”. This is what the objective for the public deficit of France requires, which the government hopes to bring to 4.6% of GDP in 2026, explained the Minister of Economy and Finance, Eric Lombard, on Sunday. This reduction in the deficit will not go through tax increases on middle classes and companies, he said.
“No question of overloading businesses,” warns the Medef. It should not “Avect the companies even more, which this year supports 13 billion euros in additional samples”warns the president of the employers’ union, Patrick Martin, Tuesday morning on franceinfo. “Companies make efforts every day”he believes.
The Association of Mayors of France dissatisfied. The first deputy vice-president of the AMF, André Laignel, denounces “A pure communication operation”on Franceinfo, to explain that its organization refuses to participate in the meeting organized by François Bayrou. He believes that local elected officials “were summoned Friday evening for Tuesday morning, without agenda, without document, without preparatory meeting”
