{"id":372594,"date":"2025-08-25T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372594\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:11:11","slug":"french-pm-bayrou-to-hold-high-stakes-confidence-vote-ahead-of-budget-debate-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372594\/","title":{"rendered":"French PM Bayrou to hold high-stakes confidence vote ahead of budget debate \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-pm-francois-bayrou-floats-axing-2-public-holidays-escape-financial-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last month unveiled<\/a>\u00a0an aggressive \u20ac43.8 billion budget squeeze for next year projected to bring the 2026 budget deficit down to 4.6 percent of gross domestic product.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the proposal, which also slashes two public holidays, sparked fury among opposition parties, some of whom vowed topple Bayrou if he forged ahead without significant changes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bayrou must also contend with the threat of massive demonstrations and a nationwide shutdown<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-anti-tax-presidency-2027-nicolas-marine-le-pen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> being organized on Sept. 10.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By calling a confidence vote before the protests and the French legislature&#8217;s return to business, Bayrou is effectively choosing to accelerate his fate and face the risk of collapse head-on. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are moments in life when only a calculated risk can allow you to escape a more serious risk,\u201d Bayrou said. \u201cIt is a matter of the survival of our state, the image of our nation, and each and every family.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prime minister\u00a0last month unveiled\u00a0an aggressive \u20ac43.8 billion budget squeeze for next year projected to bring the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2825,2000,299,36,37,28649,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-372594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-debt","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-francois-bayrou","13":"tag-national-budgets","14":"tag-tax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115090049179202776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372594","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=372594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}