{"id":4846,"date":"2025-07-17T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/4846\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:36:13","slug":"the-method-to-francois-bayrous-madness-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/4846\/","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":4847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[455,457,458,2953,461,418,2954,2955,819,1807,2956,2957,2958,2959,49,2960,2961,2797,2962,2963,2964,2363,50,423,470,2965,474,51,47,52,48,476],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-austerity","tag-books","tag-budget","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-headlines","tag-healthcare","tag-laurent-wauquiez","tag-macron","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-michel-barnier","tag-national-budgets","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-rights","tag-sophie-primas","tag-tax","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}