{"id":641988,"date":"2025-12-19T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641988\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:56:17","slug":"france-to-end-year-without-budget-as-lawmakers-fail-to-strike-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641988\/","title":{"rendered":"France to end\u00a0year without budget\u00a0as lawmakers\u00a0fail to\u00a0strike deal\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecornu had warned in November that\u00a0failing to pass\u00a0a budget before the end of the year was a \u201cdanger\u201d for the French economy. Markets have been eyeing France with concern out of fear it has become too ungovernable to balance the books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I regret the lack of willingness on the part of certain parliamentarians to reach an agreement, as we had unfortunately feared for the past few days,&#8221; Lecornu said. <\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers will now move to pass a stopgap measure that rolls over the 2025 budget into next\u00a0year and\u00a0then\u00a0get back to work on\u00a0finalizing\u00a0a 2026 budget in the new year.\u00a0While that temporary solution will prevent a U.S.-style shutdown, it does nothing to\u00a0bring down a budget deficit that this year is projected to come in at 5.4 percent of gross domestic product.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lecornu said in October that the 2026 budget deficit must not exceed 5 percent of GDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lecornu had warned in November that\u00a0failing to pass\u00a0a budget before the end of the year was a \u201cdanger\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[3444,1194,2000,299,36,24402,38,2441,12338,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-641988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-french-political-crisis","14":"tag-french-politics","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","17":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115745638851895873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641988","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=641988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}