While the debates will soon resume on the 2025 budget, Amélie de Montchalin, Minister of Public Accounts, announced this Wednesday, January 15, “a historic effort” on TF1.
Asked on TF1 in the show Bonjour! La Matinale, the Minister of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, indicated this Wednesday, January 15, that the French budget for 2025 would provide for “a historic effort” in savings of “more than 30 billion euros”, while the threat of censorship hangs over the Bayrou government.
“Because we have made this choice of zero additional tax for the French, we are making a lot of efforts on spending”, declared the minister. Among the solutions mentioned, a reduction of “5%” in spending of “1,000 public agencies” for savings of “2 billion euros” according to the minister as well as a “anti-optimization mechanism” so that “existing taxes are paid by everyone”.
“A historic effort”
“We are going to make a historic effort to reduce public spending: more than 30 billion”, she declared on TF1, then emphasizing the accuracy of press reports referring to 32 billion in savings and 21 billion in revenue increases. She also considered that the social partners would “manage” to find common ground on pension reform.
The minister also specified that the country was currently “in an unprecedented and serious situation”, stating that “we need a budget as soon as possible”. Debates on the budget issue will begin this week in the Senate, “so that the country can get going again”. “We are working so that there can be an agreement in the National Assembly at the end of January. We are moving quickly”, affirms Amélie de Montchalin.