TRIBUNE – While Prime Minister François Bayrou presented his tracks on Tuesday, July 15, for the next 2026 budget, eleven new energy racks offer a counter-project, focused on reducing the state perimeter and the revival of the production of wealth.
The last report of the Court of Auditors, made public on July 2, is final: France lives much above its means.
Our deficit reaches 5.8 % of GDP – the highest in the euro zone – and the debt explodes, the fruit of decades of budgetary facility, redistributive demagogy and a structural denial in the face of the reform imperative.
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The Gudille government, a movement on the right, movement on the left, promises savings without detailing its terms, and continues to increase the samples. The result is known: growth at half mast, a discouraged private investment, an exodus of talents, and a feeling of fiscal injustice that feeds democratic anger.
To this vision navigation, with David Lisnard, we oppose a clear strategy, built around two pillars: reducing the perimeter of the state, as well as the bureaucracy, and relaunching the production of wealth. It is the only way to avoid our country with a destiny in Greek.
With 57 % of public spending relating to GDP, France is the most expense in the world. And for what results? Degraded public services, tension hospital, crisis school, decay safety.
France holds the European record for compulsory levies (46 % of GDP), and yet tax revenue decreases. For what ? Because assets adapt: departures abroad, informal work, arbitrations against investment.
We propose: the privatization of non -sovereign functions, when possible, and the introduction of competition in public services; the gradual reduction of 600,000 positions in administrative functions, by the non-replacement of natural departures, via mobility and digitization, and to redeploy the means to the field missions; The refocusing of the State on its fundamental missions: security, justice, diplomacy, energy and digital independence.
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You have to get out of the logic of the budget planer and the tax spiral. Too much tax kills tax. France holds the European record for compulsory levies (46 % of GDP), and yet tax revenue decreases. For what ? Because assets adapt: departures abroad, informal work, arbitrations against investment.
We propose: the convergence of public and private pension plans, with a compulsory capitalization floor to guarantee sustainability; A single capped social allowance, refocused on truly fragile audiences, to end the inconsistent stack of social aids with biometric vital card and interconnected national file to combat social fraud; The end of state medical aid (AME) for the benefit of controlled emergency aid; a simplification of VAT to two rates (12.5 % and 20 %), more readable, fairer, less conducive to fraud; A complete overhaul of the housing policy, ineffective despite billions engulfed.
Our dependence on imports harms our trade balance, weighs down our public spending and devalues our industry.
But also: the abolition, the merger and the targeted privatization of agencies and public operators today redundant and expensive, to generate more than ten billion euros in structural savings without sacrificing essential missions; The end of inflationary aid in housing, the reduction of public aid to companies with low leverage and CIR revision; the reform of our health system by the disinstatement of hospitals, the abolition of ARS, and the reduction of additional costs for more efficiency and proximity; The conditionality of social aid at residence and effective contribution in France.
These clear choices will make it possible to alleviate the charges weighing on work, relaunching investment and finishing security, justice and education, pillars of a strong, effective and refocused state on its sovereign missions.
Our plan is to achieve 200 billion savings over five years, or 7 GDP points, with the aim of reaching a drop of 10 GDP points. This trajectory involves management by missions, clear objectives, a culture of evaluation and a return to common sense.
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David Lisnard recalled it on multiple times: we will not find budgetary autonomy without energy sovereignty. Our dependence
With imports harms our trade balance, weighs down our public spending and devalues our industry.
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It is time to: extend the existing power plants authorized by ASN whose cost is € 5 MWh to be compared to the cost of ENR; Relaunching a new generation nuclear program, based on SMR and EPR2 reactors, give a strategic course to the hydroelectric sector, today bridled by “green” dogmas, lift blockages to the exploitation of our natural resources, including mining, respecting environmental standards, promoting territorial energy aggregation to allow communities to invest in the production of local renewable energy.
The recovery of public accounts is not a technical exercise, it is a political and moral requirement. Because each euro poorly spent is a euro stolen from youth, national defense or prosperity of future generations.
Refounding our economic and social model does not mean denying our history, but reconciling freedom and solidarity. This requires political courage, a clear course, and the ability to get out of postures.
In New Energy, we believe in France: in its spirit of initiative, its creative genius, its territorial diversity. But it is still necessary that the state ceases to strangle the living forces of the country. There is still time. But there is no longer a minute to lose.
Signatories:
Hervé Morin, Hervé November, Alexandra Martin, Etienne Blanc, Geoffroy Boulard, Béatrice de Montille, Guillaume Guérin, Murielle Fabre, Thomas Elexhauser, Yves d’Amecourt, Quentin Hoster
