France: the State Budget for 2026 Adopted After Months of Blockade
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After a thousand trips and six motions of censure, the state budget for 2026 was finally adopted on Monday. A team of TF1 takes stock of what it actually changes for French finances. - The budget finally adopted: what it changes (or not) for taxes (My money and my rights).
The finance law was finally adopted on Monday, February 2. Bercy begins to prepare the next one. On paper, an effort to reduce the deficit should be made twice as large as in 2026. A challenge, so close to the presidential election.
On Monday, February 2, the National Assembly rejected the last two motions of censure tabled in response to Sébastien Lecornu's decision to use 49.3 for the adoption of the state budget for 2026, allowing the final adoption of the state budget. The Prime Minister is pleased that France has "at last" a budget that is "the result of a parliamentary compromise".
After months of deadlock, the state budget for 2026 was finally adopted. Recourse to 49.3, censure motions rejected, then referral announced to the Constitutional Council: the executive now wants to secure the text legally before its entry into force.
After several months of deadlock and heated debates, the French Parliament finally adopted the state budget for the year 2026, putting an end to a long political series marked by the use of Article 49.3 and the rejection of two motions of censure. This adoption comes in a context of parliamentary fragility and political division within the National Assembly. A late and controversial adoption The budget was validated on 2 February 2026, after the…
France's 2026 state budget was finally approved late Monday, ending months of deadlock in the European Union's second-largest economy after the prime minister survived a pair of no-confidence votes in parliament.
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