Macron presses PM Lecornu to secure a budget for France

France will wake up on January 1, 2026 and still not have a budget. With parliament unable to reach an agreement on the state budget bill, the government chose not to risk a no-confidence vote. Instead, on the evening of Monday, December 22, it put forward a “special law” during a cabinet meeting. “The question isn’t how the budget is passed, but what we put in the budget,” said government spokesperson Maud Bregeon, though the budget…