France’s Socialists Open to Compromise to Exit Budget Crisis
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Olivier Faure
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France’s Socialist Party is willing to compromise on the budget, opening a narrow path for Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s new government to avoid collapse in its efforts to repair creaking public finances.
Ministers are negotiating with different political groups this week to urgently piece together a 2025 budget after the previous administration and its plans were toppled in a no-confidence vote in December.