{"id":136068,"date":"2024-12-16T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/macron-has-a-new-prime-minister-but-the-same-old-problems\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:10:25","slug":"macron-has-a-new-prime-minister-but-the-same-old-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/macron-has-a-new-prime-minister-but-the-same-old-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron has a new prime minister but the same old problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136068\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>When veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, France&#8217;s new prime minister, was education minister in the 1990s, his plan to increase subsidies for private schools led to nationwide protests. He quickly caved in and would stay in the post for four more years. Three decades later, he will face a different force in the shape of a fractured and fractious parliament where one of his earliest tasks &#8211; as President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s fourth prime minister of the year &#8211; will be to pass a budget for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>First, he must name a government which, like that of his predecessor Michel Barnier, will have minority support in parliament and be vulnerable to attack from far-right and left-wing opponents. The ouster of Barnier and his cabinet &#8211; the first time France&#8217;s parliament had voted to remove a government since 1962 &#8211; seemed to stun even those behind the move. For now, there is cross-party support for emergency legislation to ensure government funding does not dry up &#8211; but then the hard work on a budget for next year will begin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The difficulties remain the same as under Michel Barnier,&#8221; Arnaud Benedetti, a professor at the Sorbonne university, told Reuters. &#8221;At least, a motion of no-confidence doesn&#8217;t seem likely in the very short-term.&#8221; A Macron aide said Bayrou was the &#8221;most consensual candidate able to bring people together.&#8221; Socialists said he represented more of the same. A career politician, Bayrou, 73, was the torch-bearer of centrism until Macron reshaped the political landscape in 2017, dynamiting the traditional mainstream parties in a campaign Bayrou decisively rallied behind.<\/p>\n<p>Bayrou has in the past talked tough on the risks posed by France&#8217;s rising debt pile. He did so again on Friday, saying the country&#8217;s debt was a &#8221;moral problem&#8221; as much as a financial one. &#8221;I hear your warning on the seriousness of the situation and I agree,&#8221; he told Barnier. But he has placed a high value on keeping the peace, whether with the unions, lawmakers or the myriad of powerful vested interests in France.\u00a0&#8221;I like to repair,&#8221; he told La Tribune Dimanche in his first interview over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the peace in a National Assembly dominated by three warring factions will be nigh-on impossible, however. Lawmakers&#8217; pushback over the 2025 budget bill led to Barnier&#8217;s downfall and left-wing leaders say they may try to topple Bayrou should he also use special constitutional powers to ram through the budget without a vote in parliament. &#8221;Bringing onboard demands from opposition parties may be fiscally costly and the degree of fiscal consolidation may be limited next year as a result,&#8221; said JP Morgan&#8217;s Raphael Brun-Aguerre in a note.<\/p>\n<p>That was the same conclusion ratings agency Moody&#8217;s drew on Saturday, cutting France&#8217;s rating by one notch, saying the fall of Barnier&#8217;s government had reduced the chances of significant improvement in French public finances.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/macron-has-new-prime-minister-same-old-problems-2024-12-15\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/macron-has-new-prime-minister-same-old-problems-2024-12-15\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/macron-has-a-new-prime-minister-but-the-same-old-problems\/\">Macron has a new prime minister but the same old problems<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[561,1686,1092,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-136068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-france","tag-macron","tag-politics","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}