[HIGHLIGHTS] A tax increase? After the poor public deficit figures, taxation divides the majority

In 2023, the public deficit reached 5.5% of French GDP, according to figures from INSEE. Far, far from the 4.9% anticipated by the government.

A slip-up described as “significant’ and “very, very rare” by the president of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici. For weeks Bruno Le Maire has been preparing the French for economic harshness. Let him insist that France will have to tighten its belt.