what are the challenges for the government?

The government holidays are over, and the first Council of Ministers will take place on Wednesday August 24, with the first major file being the finance bill for its 2023 budget. “The government is on the razor’s edge, between the imperative of debt reduction and the protection of the purchasing power of the French in the face of inflation”, declares the journalist Alexandre Peyrout, present on the set of 19/20, Sunday August 21. To this is added to the energy crisis, the reform of unemployment insurance or, later, that of pensions.

There is also, on the left, the announcement of a tense return to Nupes. “A return to school in scattered order, since the Insoumis, the ecologists, the socialists and the communists will have their summer universities each on their side next weekend. Executives from each of the parties will nevertheless go to the events organized by the others”, reports Alexandre Peyrout. The objective: to be united, “to try to embody the opposition in the National Assembly”concludes the journalist.