Bruno Le Maire is the guest of the premiere of the show “L’Événement, l’interview”, broadcast on France 2, Thursday September 28 from 8:40 p.m. In the middle of the week of presentation of the 2024 budget, the Minister of the Economy answers questions from Caroline Roux. The minister is questioned in an economic context shaken by questions linked to the fight against inflation, the surge in fuel prices, but also the reduction of the debt, a priority of the executive. On the subject of food inflation, Bruno Le Maire recognizes that France “will not return to pre-crisis prices”. “We are not going to return to the previous price, but prices must increase more slowly.” Follow our live stream.
Next year will be “best” than this year in terms of inflation. “The year 2024 will be better than the year 2023. I am convinced that in 2024, we will see an acceleration in the decline in prices”assured Bruno Le Maire.
Comments on the next presidential election. Asked about his presidential ambitions for 2027, the minister assured that “I’m at work”. “I also say it to all those who have presidential dreams in the majority and who are all legitimate to have them: there will be no one on the starting line who will be capable of winning in 2027 if we do not ‘We don’t have any results.’
A budget to “restore the trajectory of our public finances”. During the presentation of the bill on Wednesday, the Minister of the Economy announced that he wanted to make savings with the 2024 budget, by reducing the public deficit to 4.4% next year. The executive, however, promised the indexation of social minima to inflation, investments in the ecological transition and a new tax on motorways and airports.
49.3 triggered for the public finance programming law. The Prime Minister used this article of the Constitution to have this text adopted, which traces France’s budgetary trajectory between 2023 and 2027. This is her twelfth use of this legislative “weapon” since taking office.
Tensions surrounding the ban on thermal strainers. Criticized by the majority for having opened the door to a postponement of the ban on renting the most energy-intensive housing, Bruno Le Maire finally tried on Wednesday to water down his remarks, without completely withdrawing: “There is no question of changing the timetable as it has been determined”he assured during the presentation of the 2024 budget.