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The budget question shows how desolate the financial situation of France is: Because of the shaky majority relationships in parliament, the second largest economy of the EU has not managed to adopt a household for 2025 since autumn 2024. On Monday, Premier François Bayrou announced that he would use the constitutional article 49-3 on the same day. This institutional crowbar allows you to put a project into force without a coordination – provided that the government (Parliament) then pronounces the government. If not, the government would come to a fall – as Michel Barnier had already happened in December.
