PARIS (Reuters) – The French Minister of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, announced on Sunday the government’s intention to abolish or merge “by the end of the year” a third of the agencies and operators of the State “which are not universities” to save money.
“The state will clean up in our organization, because the French ask for it,” said Amélie de Montchalin in “Le Grand Rendez-vous” on CNews and Europe 1, adding that “180,000 people work in agencies and operators, more than gendarmes in the country”.
Asked about how public jobs would be deleted, Amélie de Montchalin replied: “You have people who retire, you have people you can put together, we have a lot of means without doing in social breakage.”
Ads will be made “in mid-May” during a hearing by a Senate commission, she said.
In full preparation for the budget for 2026, François Bayrou’s government indicated that 40 billion euros would have to be found to hold the target of public deficit at 4.6% of GDP next year, against 5.4% expected this year.
(Elizabeth Pineau report)
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