Lhe government wants to increase by 12.5 billion euros, an “unprecedented increase of 11.4%”, the credits allocated in the 2023 budget to Education, Labor and Solidarity, announces the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal in an interview to be published on Monday August 8 in The echoes. “The Employment budget will increase in particular by 6.7 billion, in particular to finance the rise of apprenticeship, with a target of 1 million apprentices by the end of the five-year period”, details- he.
National Education “will benefit from a historic increase (+3.6 billion) in its credits. The commitment of the President of the Republic to the continuation of the salary increase will be kept and no teacher will enter the career with less than 2,000 euros net”, continues the budget manager.
Budget savings to be found
The « regal block » including the Ministries of Defence, Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs are not left out, reassures the Minister, with a budget increasing by « €6.1 billion ». « A very significant increase that we assume in order to keep in particular the commitment of an increase of 3 billion Army credits in 2023, but also the objectives of Beauvau de la sécurité, which provides for the doubling of the presence of law enforcement on the ground by 2030 »he says. « The Justice budget will benefit from a new increase of 8%, after two years of increases of the same amounts, in order to continue the recruitment of new magistrates and to respect the plans for the construction of new prison places. »he says again.
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As for the Ministries of Environmental Transition, Territorial Cohesion and Agriculture, they “will have an additional 3.3 billion euros”. Gabriel Attal, on the other hand, does not provide any details on the savings projects that will have to be carried out to balance this budget. “Broad public spending will fall by 0.3% in volume terms next year,” he said. “The document (…) provides that the appropriations of the State budget will amount to 339 billion euros in 2023, i.e. virtual stability in value compared to the level post-amendment finance law, and a decrease of 2.5% in volume. This will make it possible to meet the objective of a deficit of 5% of GDP next year while financing our priorities, ”he emphasizes.