The French Prime Minister,
Pensions should also be frozen, there will be tax on the richest. 44 billion cuts to reduce the deficit.
A austerity comes to France And times of political and social agitation are foreseen.
The French government announced a freezing expenses In 2026, at 2025, except in defense and debt charges, to wage the country’s debt growth. And to “give an example.”
Among the various measures announced, proposes the creation of a “contribution of solidarity” intended for “Richer” and elimination of two national holidays: Easter Monday and May 8th.
Prime Minister François Bayrou said the measures are framed in a four-year budget adjustment plan, which will start next year with a budget cuts of 43,800 million euros to reduce expenses and increase revenues, considering that France is “at the last season before the cliff and the crushing for debt”. The idea of the executive is to reduce the deficit to 4.6% of GDP.
Freezing salaries in civil service and pensions, reducing public employment, cutting social and health expensesin the heading of expenses; and one contribution of solidarity of the richestin the revenue heading, there are some of the measures outlined by Bayrou and presented in a special intervention before the government and parliament.
The ruler has insisted on the need to wage the rapid increase in public debt, since, at the current pace, debt payment would reach 100 billion euros by 2029, becoming the first budget heading.
Bayrou also announced that France will institute a “solidarity contribution” to the “richest”, considering that “the nation effort must be equitable”To contain the increase in debt.
“A contribution of solidarity” will be created to “ask for little to those who have little and more to those who have more,” said Bayrou, who referred the details of this tax to Parliament.
The French Prime Minister has also announced “complementary measures to combat the abusive optimization of non-productive heritage,” giving as an example the intention of eliminating two of the 11 official holidays so that “the country’s activity as a whole is more important.”
Bayrou proposes Working on Easter Mondaythat “it has no religious meaning”, and the May 8celebration of the end of World War II in Europe, considering that these measures “will yield several thousand millions of millions [de euros] to the state budget”.
“We need to work more As a nation, ”said the prime minister.
The proposals will be debated in the French Parliament only after summer, but the criticism has arrived.
A National union warned that you can advance with a censure motion In October, to overthrow the government: “It is a direct attack on French history,” the party president Jordan Bardella claimed.
François Bayrou has a sense that he is “at the mercy of the opposition” – and admitted that can be removed from office because of this plan.
