{"id":8116,"date":"2025-12-26T08:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/french-budget-chaos-hobbles-right-wing-presidential-hopefuls-politico\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:57:14","slug":"french-budget-chaos-hobbles-right-wing-presidential-hopefuls-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/french-budget-chaos-hobbles-right-wing-presidential-hopefuls-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"French budget chaos hobbles right-wing presidential hopefuls \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Retailleau and Philippe attempted to cement their reputations as fiscally responsible leaders throughout the process, calling for spending cuts to rein in a budget deficit projected to come in at 5.4 percent of gross domestic product at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, both came out against the social security budget, which passed by a razor-thin margin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-parliament-social-security-budget-2026-national-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier this month<\/a>. And they have both been dragged into the grueling and at times vaudevillian debate on a state budget,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-to-end-year-without-budget-lawmakers-pm-lecornu-fail-strike-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> which lawmakers failed to enact before the new year.<\/a> The government will now roll over the 2025 budget into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-budget-chaos-leaves-right-wing-presidential-hopefuls-diminished\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailleau and Philippe attempted to cement their reputations as fiscally responsible leaders throughout the process, calling for spending cuts to rein in a budget deficit projected to come in at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}