After summer's growth revisions, Macron has budget work cut out


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Aug 2018

FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in Quimper, France, June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will make the tough political choices needed to meet his deficit commitments, his government spokesman said, as he looked to put a bodyguard scandal behind him at his first cabinet meeting after the summer break.

Macron and his ministers in all likelihood need to find savings in next year's budget, to be presented to parliament next month, if they are to prevent the deficit from ballooning once again.

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