US EditionMarine Le Pen Threatens to Bring Down French Government Over $47.6 Billion Budget Cuts
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The leader of the nationalist party found François Bayrou's draft budget "unbalanced", "ineffective" and "indignant", threatening to table a motion of censure if the government does not review its copy.
EXCLUSIVE. The president of the RN group at the National Assembly goes back to François Bayrou's budget announcements.
Twenty-four hours after the presentation of his draft state budget, with 44 billion cuts, accompanied by tax increases, Prime Minister François Bayrou has made a major concession to Marine Le Pen: to significantly reduce the French contribution to EU budgets.Historically, Jean-Marie Le Pen's former National Front (FN, far-right) and its "successor", National Grouping (AN, his daughter Marine's "refounded" party, are hostile to the political cons…
Marine Le Pen has proposed to reduce France's contribution to the European Union as an alternative to the austerity budget for 2026 anticipated by the Prime Minister, the...
Marine Le Pen Threatens to Bring Down French Government Over $47.6 Billion Budget Cuts
French conservative politician Marine Le Pen has vowed to bring down the government unless Prime Minister François Bayrou rows back massive budget cuts. On July 15, Bayrou announced drastic measures to the Senate to reduce the public deficit by 43.8 billion euros ($47.6 billion) in 2026. “We’ve become addicted to public spending,” Bayrou said at a news conference where he presented the major public finance recovery plan, adding that no other cou…
French Prime Minister François Bayrou is trying to reduce the budget deficit and wants to cut the number of annual holidays through cost-cutting measures. Such plans do not sit well with right-wing populist leader Marine Le Pen, who has threatened to topple Bayrou's government.
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