Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
French Finance Minister warns of budget deficit changes if government falls, impacting fiscal policy and requiring negotiations.
(Reuters) -French Finance Minister Eric Lombard said the government would inevitably have to compromise on plans to cut the budget deficit if Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is toppled in a confidence vote next week, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Lombard said in an interview with the newspaper that fresh negotiations would require the government to make concessions to the left to reduce the size of the fiscal package if the government fell.
(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue)
Eric Lombard indicated that if Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is toppled, the government would have to compromise on its plans to cut the budget deficit.
Lombard mentioned that fresh negotiations would necessitate the government making concessions to the left to reduce the size of the fiscal package.
The statements were reported by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru, with editing by Tom Hogue.
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