2023-09-26 19:55:39
By Julie Ruiz
Published 3 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
Bruno Le Maire gave an uncompromising picture of the state of public finances during a meeting with majority parliamentarians. Sébastien SORIANO/Le Figaro
STORY – The Minister of the Economy, who presents the 2024 finance bill this Wednesday, calls on his camp to make debt reduction a real “political line”.
Debt reduction, Bruno Le Maire has “the impression that no one is interested“. On the eve of the presentation of the budget, the Minister of the Economy gave an uncompromising picture of the state of public finances during a meeting with majority parliamentarians. “He highlighted the fact that France would be the only European country with a deficit of more than 3%.» in 2025, reports a participant at the meeting, where the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, and the Minister Delegate for the Budget, Thomas Cazenave, were also present.
Faced with this observation, the boss of Bercy ordered the elected representatives of the majority to do “duty to fight debt” a truly “political line“. While the 2024 finance bill will be examined in the Assembly in a few days, he wanted to moderate the creativity of the majority parliamentarians in terms of amendments. “We will all have a very bad Christmas paying more for the gifts we gave during the PLF», he said, in reference…
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