{"id":208925,"date":"2025-06-23T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208925\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:46:09","slug":"how-much-did-the-paris-olympics-and-paralympics-cost-the-french-taxpayer-massive-costs-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208925\/","title":{"rendered":"How much did the Paris Olympics and Paralympics cost the French taxpayer? Massive costs revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics cost the French state just under 6 billion euros ($6.9 billion), the national audit body announced in an \u201cinitial estimate\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n

Government expenditure on the organisation of the two sporting extravaganzas last summer cost 2.77 billion euros, which included 1.4 billion euros for security.<\/p>\n

A further 3.19 billion euros were spent on work linked to infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n

More than 35,000 members of the security forces were deployed, with the security bill including 315 million euros paid in bonuses to the police.<\/p>\n

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The Olympics ran from July 26 to August 11, while the Paralympics took place from August 28 to September 8, with organisers making the most of historic sites in central Paris, either as venues or the backdrop to the events.<\/p>\n

The Games were widely hailed as highly successful.<\/p>\n

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Until now, only the separate 4.4 billion-euro costs of the local organising committee (COJO), which represented a surplus of 76 million euros, have been made public.
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Until now, only the separate 4.4 billion-euro costs of the local organising committee (COJO), which represented a surplus of 76 million euros, have been made public.
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The national audit body said there would be a \u201cheightened interest\u201d in the figures because France is also preparing to host the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps.<\/p>\n

It is the first time actual figures for France\u00a0have been announced, although the president of the national audit body, Pierre Moscovici, said in 2024 they would cost the state \u201cthree, maybe four, five billion euros\u201d.<\/p>\n

Moscovici, a former French finance minister and European Union Commissioner, said after the release of the figures on Monday that \u201cthere is really nothing to argue about\u201d.<\/p>\n

Until now, only the separate 4.4 billion-euro costs of the local organising committee (COJO), which represented a surplus of 76 million euros, have been made public.<\/p>\n

That money came almost exclusively from private financing and from Solideo, the body responsible for delivering Olympic construction projects, which was in part publicly financed.<\/p>\n

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Approximately 3.19 billion euros were spent on work linked to infrastructure projects.
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Approximately 3.19 billion euros were spent on work linked to infrastructure projects.
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A more detailed report will be published in October as other costs are not yet known.<\/b><\/p>\n

The audit body added that because of a lack of concrete information, the figures did not include \u201cthe positive and negative impact the Games had on economic activity\u201d.<\/p>\n

It said, however, that the Games were \u201cindisputably a success with the public and the media\u201d.<\/p>\n

Moscovici said the amount of public spending for the Paris Games \u201cseems to be more limited than for London 2012\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Paris Olympics are most often compared to the Games in London, given their similar geographical setting.<\/p>\n

Another report on the legacy of the Games will be published in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics cost the French state just under 6 billion euros ($6.9 billion), the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,83677,83673,83676,83675,83674,6924],"class_list":{"0":"post-208925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-olympics-news","12":"tag-paris-olympics-cost","13":"tag-paris-olympics-cost-to-french-taxpayer","14":"tag-paris-olympics-cost-to-host","15":"tag-paris-olympics-expenditure","16":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114735348974979588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}