The public deficit is the difference between inflows and outflows from state coffers. The gap should be significant and could increase by 0.7 points to 5.6%, according to estimates revealed by the press last week.
Criticisms are all the more intense since Emmanuel Macron, who never misses an opportunity to reiterate his European commitment, does not respect the rule of 3% of the public deficit decreed by the Treaty of Maastricht. The estimates have already caused a political storm on the budgetary management of the Macron years.