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Health and energy crises: the Court of Auditors calls for an end to multiple public aid

It is high time to put an end to the public aid measures put in place to deal with the Covid crisis in 2020 and its economic consequences as well as those intended, two years later, to mitigate the rise in oil prices. energy following the war in Ukraine and the inflationary shock that followed. This is what the Court of Auditors recommends in a report devoted to exceptional aid measures. In total, 176 billion euros deployed in favor of numerous sectors. »

Presented as responses limited in time, several of these measures continue to weigh on the State budget, while the crises which justified them have generally been resolved,” argues the Court. This lists for the attention of the government, which twelve “savings proposals” which can “be initiated from the finance law for 2025”. That’s a margin of maneuver of four billion euros from this year and 6 billion by 2027.

Among the aid targeted: measures to support apprenticeships, professional training and support for young people, exceptional measures to combat rising energy prices and inflation, aid in the sectors agricultural and forestry, those in favor of greening vehicles and, finally, the measures, considered unconvincing, devoted to the cultural sector.

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