Time for after-sales service. IGuest of “4 Truths”, on France 2, Friday October 11, Antoine Armand defended the 2025 finance bill, presented the day before in the Council of Ministers. The Minister of Economy and Finance refuses to talk about a “austerity budget” but rather of a “recovery budget”. “It is not comparable to lower the salaries of all civil servants as has been done in certain countries and to say that we are not going to hire more civil servants because we are trying to save money,” he also explained. The new tenant of Bercy will meet from 8:30 a.m. at the National Assembly. He will be auditioned with Laurent Saint-Martin, Minister responsible for the Budget and Public Accounts, by the Finance Committee. Follow our live stream.
The opposition is winding down. As soon as the Barnier government’s 2025 budget project was presented, the oppositions reacted: a cure“austerity” for the left, “a calamity” for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “an easy budget” according to the RN. “It’s a perfectible budget,” the Prime Minister himself admitted on the evening of Thursday October 10.
Fewer but more productive civil servants. This is the meaning of the policy defended by the Ministry of Civil Service which includes the elimination of 2,201 civil servant positions for the State and its operators. For State services alone, the text which will be presented in the coming days to Parliament provides for the elimination of 1,196 positions: this balance includes in particular 4,000 reductions in teaching positions and 505 in the Budget and Public Accounts of On the one hand, while at the same time, 2,000 support workers for students with disabilities (AESH) would be recruited, 619 jobs would be created in the Justice Department and 630 in the Army.
The High Council of Public Finances considers the government’s budgetary approach “fragile”. “The forecasts remain a little optimistic and the information is poorly documented, and therefore the results on revenues and expenditures are fragile”affirmed its president Pierre Moscovici during a press conference. He also affirmed that the slippage of the public deficit in 2024 would be “absolutely considerable and unprecedented”.