Deficit: the slippage is “significant”, it is ‘very, very rare’, warns the president of the Court of Auditors. “The 4.9% was already not a performance, since the 2022 deficit was at 4.8%,” explained the former Minister of the Economy and Finance.
Pierre Moscovici judged that there had been no "insincerity" in the government's deficit forecasts, "in the sense that there is no desire to deceive" from the executive.