seven associations of mayors specific their “deep concern” concerning the requested financial savings | EUROtoday
Seven associations of mayors and intermunicipalities, together with the Association of French Mayors and Intermunicipal Presidents (AMF), expressed, in a joint press launch printed Thursday October 31, “deep concern” elected officers from “communal block” going through the “additional punctures” of 5 billion euros in financial savings requested from communities within the 2025 draft finances, to which they reiterate that they’re “opposed”.
According to those associations, the budgetary effort requested from native authorities wouldn’t quantity to five billion however moderately “to the tune of at least 10 billion euros”. This similar estimate was put ahead in mid-October by representatives of left-wing communities throughout a press convention within the Senate.
The signatory associations are the AMF, the Association of Rural Mayors of France (AMRF), that of small cities (APVF), in addition to Urban France, Intercommunalités de France, Villes de France and the National Union of Municipal Centers of social motion (UNCCAS).
These associations of elected officers, who participated on Wednesday in a “first unprecedented meeting which marks their unity”reiterate of their press launch their opposition “to these deductions which are not savings”. They “will soon propose savings options to the government in a joint contribution which is in preparation”.
The 2025 finance invoice (PLF) plans to ask native authorities for five billion euros in financial savings, concentrating the vast majority of the trouble on 450 of them. On Wednesday, within the Finance Committee, the deputies nevertheless rejected the article of the PLF which considerations the levy of three billion euros from the revenues of the 450 largest communities in France.
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