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Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu at the National Assembly in Paris on December 9, 2025.

Economists wish to have unique indicators. At Bercy, the possibilities of shortly discovering a compromise finances had been listed, Tuesday January 6, to the dinner with entrepreneurs on the agenda of the Minister of the Economy, Roland Lescure. If the budgetary discussions deliberate simply earlier than with a dozen hand-picked deputies lasted past 8 p.m., the minister must disappear, however that may be an excellent signal. If they had been short-lived earlier than, there can be purpose to fret about the remainder of the method…

Good information, seen from Bercy: the negotiations lasted greater than 4 hours, properly past the beginning of dinner. An actual work assembly. It allowed finances specialists inside the authorities coalition and the Socialist Party (PS) to stock their factors of settlement and divergence on the tax on holding corporations, the inexperienced fund, and so on. A mandatory first step to “clarify positions and identify avenues for convergence”, they are saying at Bercy.

Will France quickly have a finances, very quickly even? This is Sébastien Lecornu’s ambition. After failing to move a finance invoice earlier than the top of 2025, the Prime Minister needed to fall again on a particular minimalist legislation, a necessity for the second 12 months in a row. Now he desires to get out of the deadlock as shortly as doable. There isn’t any query of polluting the municipal elections in March with this file which symbolizes the impotence of the dying Macronism.

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