Health cuts with the aim of increasing spending on the defense Plans the Emmanuel Macronaccording to press reports in France.
Having set a primary goal of saving a sum of 40 billion euros (with a healthy health -as The counterpart in Germany, Mertz) French Prime Minister Francois Bairou today (15.7.2025) presents the guidelines of the country’s state budget for 2026. There will be an exception to defense spending which, as announced yesterday, Sunday, July 13, French President Emmanuel Macron will increase by 6.5 billion euros over the next two years.
The goal of the French Prime Minister is for France’s fiscal deficit to fall in 2026 to 4.6% of GDP. compared to 5.4% estimated to be at the end of 2025. France has the largest fiscal deficit between euro countries while its public debt, which amounts to 114% of GDP, is the third largest after Greece and Italy. In general, the French prime minister is expected to prefer a reduction in government spending rather than increasing taxation.
According to French press reports among the measures being discussed are the reduction in health spending as well as the official public holidays of the French state.
The French prime minister met this morning in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron and is expected to meet with the leaders of the French political parties in the evening. Voting for the approval of the state budget is expected to take place next autumn and will not be an easy task for the French Prime Minister who does not have a parliamentary majority.