To balance the accounts, the government pours into political fiction by making ministers floor on an imaginary scenario.
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If your budget were to be reduced by 5%, what cuts would you make?
“: this is the central question of the letter that the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, must send to each ministry
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a priori during the course of next week.
This dispatch should take place when Bercy transmits to the High Council of Public Finances its stability plan, the multi-annual budgetary programming required by the European authorities.
But this exercise will not have the value of a constraint, we are assured rue de Varenne.
The question posed by the Prime Minister remains hypothetical.
Indeed, 5% savings on all government expenditure would represent a colossal sum.
Such a cut, applied to the 2023 budget (785 billion euros), amounts in absolute value to a skimming of more than 39 billion euros.
Either an amount greater than the total…
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