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Patrick Martin, president of Medef, Marylise Léon, secretary general of the CFDT, and Sophie Binet, secretary general of the CGT, during the meeting on public finances, in Paris, April 15, 2025.

François Bayrou lit them little and even much less reassured. At the top of the convention on public funds, orchestrated on Tuesday April 15 by the Prime Minister, these answerable for the 5 most important unions, current on the occasion, expressed their deep circumspection. Several of them had the sensation of being the witnesses of a excessive mass saying the painful tomorrows for the employees. Everyone has regretted that the Head of Government stays deaf to the thought of ​​rising sources in favor of public providers and solidarity methods.

Before even listening to the speeches of Mr. Bayrou and 5 different members of the federal government – together with Eric Lombard, in command of the economic system -, the leaders of crucial energy vegetation of staff knew that no determination could be revealed. As mentioned, after the assembly, Marylise Léon, the secretary basic of the CFDT, it was“A leg put” In order to begin eager about state and social safety budgets for 2026. But some confederation leaders discovered that the chief blackens the portray, with parts of insistent language on the truth that the French “Do not work enough”that the nation “Trop expenditure” and that the debt has change into “Unbearable”.

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