{"id":132141,"date":"2024-12-01T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132141"},"modified":"2024-12-01T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:10:45","slug":"frances-government-under-prime-minister-michel-barnier-faces-week-of-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132141","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Government Under Prime Minister Michel Barnier Faces Week of Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The French fascination with the guillotine has found a new focus over the last week. The man under the knife is France\u2019s silver-haired prime minister, Michel Barnier, known for composure on previous scaffolds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His political life could even be over this week, or possibly before Christmas, a prospect prompting <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/economie\/faute-de-budget-un-shutdown-a-l-americaine-est-il-possible-en-france-26-11-2024-2576443_28.php\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ghoulish speculation<\/a> about financial chaos, American-style government shutdown and unpaid salaries for the fifth of France\u2019s work force on the public payrolls. That the country might soon be without a government is adding to the French malaise \u2014 a soup of industrial layoffs, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/france-pension-strikes-macron-explainer.html\" title=\"\">strikes<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/29\/world\/europe\/france-farmers-protests.html\" title=\"\">demonstrating farmers<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/09\/business\/france-macron-parliament-gridlock.html\" title=\"\">anemic growth and a yawning deficit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The prospect of a government collapse sent French borrowing costs soaring relative to Germany\u2019s last week, pushing them almost to the level of Greece\u2019s. A showdown could come as early as Monday, when Mr. Barnier might try to force through a budget bill on government health care and other social spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even Mr. Barnier, a veteran politician who negotiated a tough Brexit deal for the European Union and served four times as a minister in previous governments, concedes that he is living on borrowed time. The woman in control of the blade is Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right populist National Rally, which has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/07\/world\/europe\/france-election-results-national-rally.html\" title=\"\">more seats in the lower house of the French Parliament<\/a> than any other party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She doesn\u2019t like Mr. Barnier\u2019s budget of some $60 billion in tax increases and spending cuts. She doesn\u2019t like his cuts to some medical reimbursements and increases in electricity fees \u2014 \u201cviolent, unjust, inefficient,\u201d she told reporters on Tuesday \u2014 and she has suggested that her party will censure him if he forces his budgets through without a vote in Parliament. Mr. Barnier gave ground on the electricity fees on Thursday, but Ms. Le Pen said that was not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bypassing the lower house of Parliament \u2014 a French oddity, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/16\/world\/europe\/france-constitution-article-49-3.html\" title=\"\">permitted under the Constitution<\/a> \u2014 often provokes cries of autocracy and outrage among lawmakers. 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