Against the “curse” of the debt, François Bayrou makes the unsure wager of a common mobilization of the French | EUROtoday

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The Prime Minister, François Bayrou, during the presentation of the orientations chosen for the 2026 budget, in Paris, on July 15, 2025.

François Bayrou had determined that the presentation of his funds orientations could be his “Moment of truth”. After weeks of a skillfully maintained suspense, the Prime Minister, the intense air, lastly lifted the veil, Tuesday July 15, on the measures he provides to finish the ” curse “ debt. Playing balancingists between “Red lines” of his allies, and attempting to not postpone the left of presidency instantly.

Helped by a prompter for the fluidity of the topic, Mr. Bayrou drew up, earlier than an viewers of ministers, parliamentarians, senior officers and journalists, a voluntarily alarmist desk of the nation’s public funds. “Each second, France’s debt increases by 5,000 euros (…). We have a duty to take up our responsibilities, because it is the last station before the cliff ”he alerted.

“Over -indebtedness”which obliges “Borrow each month to pay for pensions or pay the salaries of civil servants”,, “Is a curse that has no method out”still warned the tenant of Matignon, evoking, to prepare the spirits for an unusual effort, Greece of the years 2015-2019, which, over-indebted, “Had to consent immense sacrifices”as “Reduce retirement by 30 % and 15 % the wage of civil servants”.

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