Budgetary “efforts” requested from “each ministry” with a “red line” on “the sovereign”

Every Sunday, from noon to 1 p.m., The World partners with France Inter to host and broadcast the program “Political Questions”. The guest on the show on Sunday October 6 was Maud Bregeon, the government spokesperson. Four days before the presentation of the 2025 budget, M^me Bregeon explained that “efforts” would be asked to “each ministry”however highlighting the “red line” what is “the sovereign – defense, justice and the interior”. In these sectors, “we must preserve the increases in staff numbers that were planned during the programming laws (…). The objective is for the numbers to continue to increase”she defended.

While the deficit is expected to reach 6.1% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, according to the latest forecasts from the Ministry of the Economy, the government spokesperson explained that “the Prime Minister’s objective is to avoid a financial crisis, it is to prevent France from becoming the Greece of 2010 tomorrow”.