{"id":3100,"date":"2026-01-01T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/french-government-imposes-austerity-as-it-waits-for-a-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:36:17","slug":"french-government-imposes-austerity-as-it-waits-for-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/french-government-imposes-austerity-as-it-waits-for-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"French government imposes austerity as it waits for a budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Am\u00e9lie de Montchalin, France&#8217;s minister responsible for Public Accounts, during the review and vote on the special budget bill at the S\u00e9nat in Paris, December 23, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN\/AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">It&#8217;s unlikely that this New Year&#8217;s Eve was a cheerful occasion for France&#8217;s public administrators. As soon as the clock struck midnight, they faced a period of spending restrictions intended to ensure the continuity of the French state. Following the enactment of the special budget law, the government of Prime Minister S\u00e9bastian Lecornu government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2026\/01\/01\/french-government-imposes-austerity-as-it-waits-for-a-budget_6748993_5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am\u00e9lie de Montchalin, France&#8217;s minister responsible for Public Accounts, during the review and vote on the special budget bill at the S\u00e9nat in Paris, December 23, 2025. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN\/AFP It&#8217;s unlikely that this New Year&#8217;s Eve was a cheerful occasion for France&#8217;s public administrators. As soon as the clock struck midnight, they faced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-politique"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}