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France: More Taxes, Less Spending, and No Real Climate Ambition for the 2026 Budget
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On Wednesday, Nicolas Dose is interested in the 2026 budget. He says: "Stop taxes!". On Tuesday, we learned that we had a budgetary effort 2026 of 31 billion euros, or 14 billion more. "It's delusional," according to our columnist. (Economy).
The frugalite of the 2026 budget led to an increase in taxes on E85, an ecological fuel, at the risk of killing the French production line.
The Prime Minister proposed to the Parliament to suspend the reform of pensions, "until the presidential election" of 2027, in an attempt to overcome the political blockage in France. Sébastien Lecornu estimated that this reform would cost "400 million euros in 2026 and 1.8 billion in 2027", which will have to be compensated by savings, he said, it is the whole purpose of the 2026 budget which provides 30 billion savings.
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Pensions: the Consequences of the Abolition of the 10% Tax Reduction Provided for in the 2026 Budget
The draft finance law (PLF) 2026 was presented on Tuesday 14 October 2025 in the Council of Ministers. As planned, it proposes several ways of saving, some of which had already been mentioned by the previous Prime Minister François Bayrou on 15 July. Among the flagship measures, article 6 of the PLF envisages reforming the tax reduction of pensioners, as explained by Capital. Also read> Suspension of the pension reform: who is concerned? What co…
Freeze of scales, doubled franchises, higher taxes: the 2026 finance bill does not go into lace. And its impact promises to be tangible in the daily lives of millions of French. They call themselves retired, motorists, families or ordinary taxpayers. All could feel the upheavals of the 2026 budget, presented by Sébastien Lecornu. The government targets 30 billion euros in savings to straighten public accounts. Result: rising taxes, medical deduc…
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