The figure fell on Tuesday.
In 2023, France's public deficit reached 5.5% of GDP.
It slipped by 0.6 points compared to the forecast included in the finance law.
The trajectory - whose modest objective is to return below 3% in 2027 only - needs to be reviewed.
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So here we are.
At this moment in our financial history where we are hitting the wall of reality with numbers.
Where the traditional argument of those who keep well-kept accounts, the need to have room for maneuver, takes on its full meaning.
Because there is so much to finance, urgently: national rearmament, massive support for Ukraine, ecological transition, research in critical technologies, fight against drug trafficking... And we no longer have a money.
Although... Couldn't we find money to pay for some of these big extras on a European scale?
The track of the common European debt seduces our impecunious executive.
The subject, carried by France and a few other countries, was…
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