Bercy's need to reduce public spending leads to tensions and tensions in the corridors of power. With the decree of February 21 reducing 10 billion euros from the 2024 budget, the Ministry of Culture toasted.
“It’s better to cut off a finger now than an arm in six months,” the Prime Minister justifies more seriously to the members of his government. Besides the fact that the Renaissance deputies discovered this 10 billion coup while listening to Bruno Le Maire on the TF1 news on February 18, they have "the feeling that we have made fun of them", underlines one of them.