French Premier

French Prime Minister François Bayru proposed to reduce two public holidays within the 2026 budget proposal to reduce the overall expenses, while increasing defense costs.

Bayer offered Easter Monday and May 8, a day celebrating the Allies’ victory at the end of World War II in Europe.

He said Gruyère – Swiss cheese full of holes – though it added that it is open to other proposals.

Bayer risks that his budget votes in the parliament in the fall, which may eventually lead to the destruction of his government.

But on Tuesday, he emphasized that France, the second eurozone economy, is “in the deadly danger” from the debt.

Standing in front of the lecturer, adorned with the words “moment of truth”, Bayra made more than an hour outlining a number of daring measures, which, he said, should lead the annual budget deficit.

This includes the freezing of public spending for the next year, the termination of tax benefits for wealthy and reduction of the number of civil servants.

The budget should also consider President Emmanuel Macron’s call to make France’s defense costs € 3.5 billion (£ 3 billion) next year, and then another 3 billion euros in 2027.

But the proposal to cut two my public holidays was the most attractive proposal. Bayer said Easter on Monday “no religious importance”, and all the people had to work and produce more.

His idea immediately spoke with headlines – and caused condemnation on several sides.

The far -right National Party (RN) cursed it as an attack on the history of France and the French workers, while the leader of the Green Party marine tandeler lamented that the day, which celebrated the victory against Nazism, would no longer be a holiday.

Pressing the journalists after his speech, Bayer said his proposal was “main arithmetic”.

“If we want to stay on the rate, we need to find more than 40 billion euros,” Bire claimed, citing the fact that France is 43.8 billion. EUR needs to be reduced from the budget to hold the debt, which, he said, grows by 5,000 euros every second.

The French government seeks to reduce the deficit from 5.8% last year to below 4.6% next year and up to 3% by 2029, Bayer said.

The Prime Minister has been operating only since December, following the short Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

The Barnier government used executive powers to push its own bill that sought to overcome France’s deficit through an even tougher budget.

This step turned out to be unacceptable for national parties and left parties that all voted against Barnier, causing the government to collapse without confidence For the first time since 1962.

The same factions are now threatened to do so again if the bire budget will vote in the fall.

Jean-Luc Mellenchan from the Radical Left France Unbowed (LFI) said the prime minister had to be displaced, while PH leader Marin Le Pen accused Bayer of preferring “to attack French, workers and pensioners, instead of cutting out his bids.”

But Birey said his government “wanted to change things” to restore state finances and do it, “despite the risk” voting without confidence.

Ever since the unexpected elections last summer, the French Parliament has been deeply divided into three blocks that resist joint work. Other choices may well lead to such a dead end.

If the Bayru government collapses, Macron’s president will have to select the successor or appoint an unleashed technocrat government – none of which will be pleasant for the deputies.

His own popularity is less than 25%, and it would be in love with him to leave the downwards earlier than at the end of his second term in 2027 – that he invariably resisted.