{"id":8955,"date":"2026-01-16T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/budget-nightmare-pushes-french-pm-toward-risky-options-to-end-stalemate-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:29:07","slug":"budget-nightmare-pushes-french-pm-toward-risky-options-to-end-stalemate-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/budget-nightmare-pushes-french-pm-toward-risky-options-to-end-stalemate-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget nightmare pushes French PM toward risky options to end stalemate \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MPs returned from the holiday break with little more appetite to strike a deal, and the prospects of Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu\u2019s minority government persuading a majority to back a budget \u2014 one that includes politically sensitive measures to rein in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/moodys-france-rating-outlook-budget-deficit-political-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France\u2019s chronic deficit<\/a> \u2014 have all but evaporated.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent to reporters, Lecornu\u2019s office said \u201ccontinued sabotage\u201d by France\u2019s two largest opposition forces \u2014 the hard-left France Unbowed and the far-right National Rally \u2014 had made it impossible to pass a budget, even though these two parties&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/budget-nightmare-pushes-france-pm-sebastien-lecornu-toward-risky-options-to-end-stalemate\/?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>MPs returned from the holiday break with little more appetite to strike a deal, and the prospects of Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu\u2019s minority government persuading a majority to back a&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":[3051,3263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-politique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","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=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}