{"id":42958,"date":"2026-04-01T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:47:14","slug":"geneva-still-cant-agree-on-2026-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/42958\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva still can&#8217;t agree on 2026 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 1 April 2026 06:30\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62b580cb4e006.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Geneva\u2019s budget deadlock is dragging on.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The State Council of Geneva has presented a new draft budget showing a deficit of nearly CHF 600m, but admits it\u2019s unlikely to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Finance minister Nathalie Fontanet says the exercise is \u201cpointless,\u201d blaming a political standoff over CHF 300m in proposed savings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rising costs &#8211; driven by demographics, healthcare, and federal obligations &#8211; are outpacing weak revenue growth, while tax income has been revised down.<\/p>\n<p>With parties divided, approval looks unlikely, and temporary budgeting could continue through the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A broader savings plan is expected by June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 1 April 2026 06:30 Geneva\u2019s budget deadlock is dragging on. The State Council of Geneva has presented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":{"0":"post-42958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-anglophone-radio-station","9":"tag-broadcast","10":"tag-butcher","11":"tag-english-radio","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-expat","14":"tag-fm","15":"tag-geneva","16":"tag-geneve","17":"tag-internet-radio","18":"tag-lausanne","19":"tag-local-news-geneva","20":"tag-local-radio","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-radio-frontier","24":"tag-ski-news","25":"tag-ski-update","26":"tag-snow-report","27":"tag-swiss","28":"tag-swiss-news","29":"tag-switzerland","30":"tag-switzerland-news","31":"tag-whats-on","32":"tag-world-radio-switzerland","33":"tag-wrs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116330236741709021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}