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1 day agoFrance adopts 2026 budget after two no-confidence votes fail
France passed a 2026 budget increasing military spending and aiming to reduce the deficit to 5% of GDP by the end of 2026.
The splintered National Assembly will vote on the Social Security budget on Tuesday, December 9th. There is a slender chance that the budget can pass with a hotch-potch majority assembled from the quarrelsome Centre, the divided Centre-Right and the wary Socialists. If so, Lecornu's experiment in parliamentary democracy allowing the National Assembly to control the most important French budget-making for decades will have achieved its first important success.