Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, January 12, 2024 in Paris. BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS
COUNTERPOINT – The Prime Minister is currently working on unemployment insurance, juvenile justice and end of life, three particularly sensitive issues.
Every month is a test. Gabriel Attal has his eye on Tuesday March 26. That day will mark the end of negotiations between employers and unions on unemployment insurance. On April 26, the Prime Minister will be awaiting another decisive verdict for the action of his government: that of the rating agencies.
In Matignon as in Bercy, we are careful not to make any predictions. Based on certain confidences, however, we wonder if the deterioration of France’s rating is not expected with inevitability, or even resignation. It would be a humiliation for Emmanuel Macron’s executive. But what we cannot avoid, we might as well theorize. And this shock can be used to justify the fight launched by Bruno Le Maire to find savings. The Minister of the Economy has already warned that social spending would have to be cut. The Prime Minister is on the same line. Paper and pencil in hand, Attal draws the perimeter of public spending in front of his visitors. Explaining that fault…
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2024-03-17 20:53:03
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