MEPs transfer away from the focused compromise | EUROtoday

Philippe Brun is determined. “It’s a massacre!” »he blurted. The deputy (Socialist Party, PS) of Eure, co-leader of the PS for the funds, hoped that, after the spectacular failure of the end-of-year discussions, the resumption of the examination of the finance invoice for 2026 by the National Assembly, Thursday January 8, would lastly enable the long-sought compromise to emerge between the socialists and the federal government’s supporters. Missed. During the primary debates within the Finance Committee, no consensus emerged, no define of rapprochement appeared.

“We find in committee the same antagonisms as before between the left and the right, and the government is doing nothing to bring about the hoped-for compromise”, regrets the socialist deputy. Eric Coquerel, the president (La France insoumise, LFI) of the finance committee can also be very skeptical: “I don’t see any concessions coming that would allow the government not to be censored. »

Before the relaunch of the budgetary debates, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, had nevertheless demonstrated his desire to reach a rapid agreement between the different parties of the left and right ready to work together on the budget, in order to exit as quickly as possible from the regime of the special law, this minimalist text adopted urgently at the end of December 2025. Official goal: a budget adopted in January. “A compromise is possible, we are not far from it”Amélie de Montchalin, the Minister of Public Accounts, mentioned once more on Thursday in entrance of journalists.

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