Gabriel Attal, Prime Minister in charge of managing current affairs, sent the various ministers the “ceiling letters” for the 2025 budget project. Traditionally, they are sent at the beginning of August in order to give ministers time to plead their case before Bercy or Matignon. Due to the early legislative elections and the resulting lack of a majority, the budget calendar has been disrupted, but the hourglass continues to run out.
The government is in fact required by the organic law relating to finance laws (LOLF) to present a draft budget to the National Assembly on 1er next October, knowing that this must be examined in advance by the High Council of Public Finances and the Council of State. In addition, France must, by mid-September, submit to the European Commission its trajectory of public finances, which will have an impact on the budgetary choices to be made.
