{"id":649606,"date":"2025-12-23T03:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649606\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:50:14","slug":"france-rushes-emergency-budget-law-to-avert-shutdown-after-talks-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649606\/","title":{"rendered":"France rushes emergency budget law to avert shutdown after talks collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paris, France<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>France\u2019s government will push lawmakers to approve emergency legislation to keep the state running into January after they failed to agree on a 2026 budget, a stopgap measure to avert a shutdown as pressure mounts from investors and ratings agencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said on Monday the special law aimed to give final negotiations a chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/France-Paris-Sebastien-Lecornu-221225020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/><br \/>French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu leaves the Elysee Palace, after a cabinet meeting with President Emmanuel Macron on a special law to allow spending and borrowing into the new year, after budget talks failed, in Paris, France, on 22nd December, 2025. PICTURE: Reuters\/Stephanie Lecocq<\/p>\n<p>A joint committee of lawmakers from both chambers failed on Friday to hammer out a full 2026 budget bill, forcing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to seek this stopgap measure to extend spending, tax collection and borrowing into January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis special law is not a budget\u2026we must, as quickly as possible, in January, come up with a budget for the country,\u201d Bregeon added, quoting French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament was likely to approve the measure on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investors and ratings agencies are scrutinising France\u2019s finances, with the country running the euro zone\u2019s highest budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>We rely on our readers to fund Sight&#8217;s work &#8211; become a financial supporter today!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lecornu wants to avoid confidence vote<br \/><\/strong>Conservative lawmaker Philippe Juvin, who has been steering the 2026 budget through the lower house, said he expected a full text to be passed in early January.<\/p>\n<p>Juvin told BFM TV he hoped Lecornu would use special constitutional powers to force through a compromise text that could be amenable to Socialist lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Lecornu had pledged not to use such powers and to do so would likely trigger a vote of no confidence from the far right or hard left, though such a motion would fail without Socialist support.<\/p>\n<p>Lecornu\u2019s minority government has little room for manoeuvre in France\u2019s fractious parliament, where budget battles have already toppled three governments since Macron lost his majority in a 2024 snap election.<\/p>\n<p>France used emergency rollover legislation last year until a proper 2025 budget could be passed in February, which the government says cost \u20ac12 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris, FranceReuters France\u2019s government will push lawmakers to approve emergency legislation to keep the state running into January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,116177,151474,12338],"class_list":{"0":"post-649606","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-french-budget","12":"tag-government-shutdown","13":"tag-sebastien-lecornu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115766850062386943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649606","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=649606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}