First president of the Court of Auditors Pierre Moscovici points finger at support systems for households and businesses during the recent energy crisis. “We have made 'whatever it costs' very widespread, without targeting, we have done more than our neighbors and therefore we arrive at a situation where we can no longer go into debt,” he says.

‘We must take control of our public finances,’ pleaded the first president. More than 10 billion euros of energy expenditure have thus been eliminated by the government between 2023 and 2024.