the State topics France Télévisions to a extreme regime | EUROtoday

The nation’s budgetary context didn’t enable any hope of any improve within the public broadcasting price range. But, on arrival, it’s a discount in funding of round 86 million euros which can hit France Télévisions, Radio France, and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) in 2026 – France Médias Monde, Arte and TV5 Monde are spared.

This minimize got here near being 15 million euros bigger and exceeding a complete of 100 million euros. Indeed, an modification to the income a part of the finance invoice – adopted on January 20 after the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, resorted to article 49.3 of the Constitution – first diminished by 30 million euros the quantity of VAT allotted to the monetary help account devoted to “advances to public broadcasting”. This is the general public broadcasting financing system which changed the previous license payment, abolished by Emmanuel Macron in 2022.

Surprised by this surprising blow in opposition to which it may do nothing, the Ministry of Culture then went to the entrance. Another modification, this time added to the a part of the finance invoice dedicated to expenditure – topic to a brand new attraction to 49.3 on Tuesday January 27 – carried out a “credit cancellation” of 15 million euros. It made it potential to halve the quantity of effort required. For public funds, this imbalance between income and expenditure will likely be transitory, till a amending finance legislation or a settlement legislation, on the finish of the yr, places the accounts again into line. As it stands, the full public broadcasting price range for 2026 quantities to three.9 billion euros.

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