Bruno Le Maire chose to admit it, finally, Sunday evening on television. The country's GDP will grow this year at a sluggish pace, around 0.5% according to the pessimists, at best 1% for the most optimistic.
The government built its 2024 budget with a growth assumption of 1.4%. The translation of these abstract figures means billions of euros less tax revenue than expected in the state coffers. The current trajectory of public finances will already lead us to have to spend, in 2027, more than 80 billion euros to pay the burden of our colossal debt.