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PARIS: The French government on Thursday unveiled budget cuts of 10 billion euros ($11 billion) as it seeks to rein in its budget. deficit. after growth failed to meet expectations...
The cuts controversially include 2 billions euros that were to be spent on environmental and energy transition programs...
The government had announced February 18 it was planning the cuts, and the decree enacting them was published Thursday in France's official journal and signed by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who was recently named by centrist President Emmanuel Macron in a cabinet reshuffle...
The government has said the cuts were needed to hold its 2024 deficit to 4.4 percent of GDP, after revising downward its growth forecast to one percent amid international tensions and slowing economies in major trading partners such as China and Germany...
The new budget cuts come on top of 16 billion euros of reduced spending already inscribed in the 2024 budget, largely due to the phase-out of energy subsidies introduced when gas and electricity prices soared after Russia's invasion of Ukraine...
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