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Public deficit: what is the cause of this slippage?
Public deficit: what is the cause of this slippage?
(France 2)
While the public deficit was exceeded by 16 billion euros more than expected in 2023, the opposition expressed its dissatisfaction on Tuesday March 26.
The government feared it, Tuesday March 26, it’s official. The public deficit slips by 5.5% of GDP in 2023, instead of the 4.9% forecast. For Bruno Le Maire, this poor figure is explained by a loss of revenue for the State. The Minister of the Economy says he is determined to return below 3% of GDP in 2027. “We can do anything savings in public finances without digging into French pockets”he explained in the morning at the microphone of RTL.
“We must tackle the great taboo of this system”
Not raising taxes is also the Republican line. But the right and the far right hold the government responsible for these poor results. “We must tackle the major taboos of this system: the cost of immigration, the cost of our membership in the European Union”, castigates Jean-Philippe Tanguy, National Rally deputy for the Somme. For its part, the left fears that the government will attack the endowments of
