THE NOTEBOOK – While the economy is tragically slowing down, the absence of a majority makes any large-scale saving measure almost inaccessible, and makes it highly probable, on the contrary, to increase spending or costly setbacks.
No one more than him – François Bayrou has sworn, repeated, assured – measures ” the difficulty of the situation » public accounts: the deficit, in which Bruno Le Maire (another self-proclaimed champion of austerity) tries with great difficulty to avoid his share of responsibility, has, in fact, « not disappear as if by magic » at the same time as the previous head of government. We can recognize in the new Prime Minister a form of constancy, declarative in any case, on the subject.
In 2007, then in 2012, François Bayrou did not hesitate to campaign under the reputedly unattractive sign of debt reduction, which he saw as an economic, but also “moral” battle. “ We cannot continue, from year to year, from decade to decade, to remain silent about our cowardice. », he told the Assembly on Tuesday. France is indeed preparing to devote more to the interest on its debt than to Education…
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