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By Jean-Luc Maracon
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Debt Servicing Costs Surpass Defense Budget. Here's the painful figure: public debt servicing costs amount to €59 billion for 2026.
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79% of Annual Deficit Target Used in Six Months. By the end of June, 79% of the annual deficit target had already been consumed.
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France is burning through money it doesn't have. The budget deficit has reached €106.8 billion in the first six months of 2026 — a 6.
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Despite Bercy's announcements of cuts, spending is on the rise again. In July, €3 billion in credits were frozen. Not enough. Economic growth has been revised downward to 0.
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The Cour des Comptes had warned about this. It had expressed doubts about the government's ability to meet the 5% GDP target for 2026. The first semester data proves it right.
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Here's the painful figure: public debt servicing costs amount to €59 billion for 2026. The Defense budget, on the other hand, is set at €57.1 billion.
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And it's getting worse. The rates for 10-year Treasury bonds — OATs, the benchmark for government borrowing — hovered around 3.75% by mid-2026.
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Total public debt reaches 117.5% of GDP. It's a critical level, the kind of ratio where the apparent debt rate exceeds the country's economic growth. The result: a snowball effect.
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By the end of June, 79% of the annual deficit target had already been consumed. Six months in, and there's barely a fifth of the budgetary margin left for the rest of the year.
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The slowdown in growth hurts in several ways at once. Less VAT collected because households are consuming less. Less corporate tax because companies are earning less.
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It's not yet clear if the government will announce additional measures by the end of the fiscal year. The €3 billion frozen in July did not change the trajectory.
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The dynamics of interest rates add pressure that the raw deficit figures do not directly show. At 3.
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The debt-to-GDP ratio at 117.5% places France in a zone where markets are watching closely. It's not an immediate crisis, but it's the kind of dynamic that can quickly turn if…
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