The Hauts-de-Seine department announced on December 2 that no Vows ceremony will take place for the transition to the year 2025. The reason: “control of public spending”.
The Hauts-de-Seine department has decided to give up its greeting ceremony this year, it announced this Monday, December 2 in a press release.
This decision was motivated by “a constrained budgetary context which affects all departments”. For the sake of “responsibility” and with the objective of “controlling public spending”, no speech will be given to mark the new year.
Communities called upon to reduce their spending
Île-de-France has not been spared from budget cuts. While the vote on the 2025 budget is still uncertain, local authorities are subject to a sharp drop in revenue from the State in the government project.
In Hauts-de-Seine, financial stability is no longer what it was. The department has borrowed 400 million euros for the construction of new colleges in 2024.
While he has always had numerous resources at his disposal, this time he called on the banks for these investment projects, something he had not done for ten years.
The departments find themselves in a difficult financial situation which “asphyxiates” them, they say. Each must make between 20 and 70 million euros in savings.
The Hauts-de-Seine department is not the only one to have made such a decision. The Île-de-France region has also given up on organizing its greeting ceremony in 2025. The president of the region, Valérie Pécressejustifies this choice by the desire to “hunt down all savings”.
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