{"id":2544,"date":"2025-07-17T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2544\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:36:09","slug":"the-method-to-francois-bayrous-madness-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2544\/","title":{"rendered":"The method to Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou\u2019s madness \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is seemingly pursuing the same strategy this time round, with Economy Minister \u00c9ric Lombard telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-16\/france-s-lombard-says-will-improve-budget-in-opposition-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg<\/a> that a deal was \u201cprobably more likely\u201d with the Socialists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Rally also needs a solid argument to rock the boat, and the government isn\u2019t going to hand them one. Shortly after the budget plan announcement, the government landed a rebate on the EU budget, a longtime demand of the National Rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to appear reasonable, and we are also aware that we might inherit the situation tomorrow,\u201d a party official, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, said ahead of the budget announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Socialists\u2019 dilemma<\/p>\n<p>The key question, though, is which way the Socialists will jump. <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, they mauled Bayrou\u2019s two-hour austerity budget pitch as \u201cunfair,\u201d \u201cbrutal\u201d and \u201cunacceptable.\u201d The party\u2019s parliamentary group said: \u201cAs things stand, censuring the government is the only perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strong stuff, but the Socialists tellingly stopped short of joining France\u2019s other left-wing forces \u2014 the Greens, France Unbowed and the Communist Party \u2014 in calling for Bayrou\u2019s immediate resignation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is seemingly pursuing the same strategy this time round, with Economy Minister \u00c9ric Lombard telling Bloomberg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3408,353,3409,45,49,48,46,3410,3411,3412,3413,3414,637,3415,3416,3417,3418,3419,392,3420,3421,3422,3423,3424,3425,3426,3427,3428,3322,3429],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-austerity","tag-books","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-edouard-philippe","tag-elections","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eric-lombard","tag-far-right","tag-france","tag-francois-bayrou","tag-francois-hollande","tag-francois-mitterrand","tag-french-political-crisis","tag-french-politics","tag-healthcare","tag-laurent-wauquiez","tag-macron","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-michel-barnier","tag-national-budgets","tag-negotiations","tag-parliament","tag-rights","tag-sophie-primas","tag-tax","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}