Discussions on the timetable for the public finance programming bill (PSSA) are continuing. The Ministry of Finance calls for a presentation in late April of this text which should set the course for public finances until the end of the five-year term. Or just after the new French stability program (PSTAB) was sent to Brussels, a document covering the same period. Due to the very tight parliamentary calendar, Matignon campaigned rather to postpone discussions until the fall. The bill would then enter the Assembly a year behind its original schedule.
The text was expected last fall. But in order to integrate the effects of the pension reform and Brexit, the Prime Minister had decided to shift it for the first time. The executive then considered a postponement in January, in order to guard against a risk of triggering the correction mechanism by the High Council of Public Finance.
This independent body, established in
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