{"id":14002,"date":"2025-07-16T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14002\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:25:04","slug":"france-proposes-axing-two-public-holidays-to-tackle-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14002\/","title":{"rendered":"France Proposes Axing Two Public Holidays to Tackle Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou proposed scrapping two national holidays, part of a drastic effort to repair public finances that\u2019s set to unleash a parliamentary backlash in the fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The premier put forward the plans as he unveiled an array of measures amounting to \u20ac43.8 billion ($50.9 billion) to pare back the largest deficit in the euro area. Other moves include a new tax on the highest earners, a freeze in pension and welfare payments at 2025 levels, and possible sales of the state\u2019s stakes in companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou proposed scrapping two national holidays, part of a drastic effort to repair public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4592,28,3055,110,101,13497,1076,594,2420,134,112,13498,593,111,733],"class_list":{"0":"post-14002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bonds","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-economics","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-euro-spot","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-michel-jean-barnier","20":"tag-paris","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-social-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}