The French government will propose combining or eliminating a third of government agencies by the end of the year in a bid to save money, the public accounts minister said on Sunday.
“We will, by the end of the year, propose in the budget that a third of state-backed agencies and operators that are not universities are merged or eliminated,” Amelie de Montchalin, the public accounts minister, said in an interview with French broadcaster CNews/Europe 1.
Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s government has sought to cut the public sector budget deficit from 5.4% of economic output this year to 3%, the European Union’s ceiling, in 2029.
So, 3% reduction of the public deficit over 5 years expected. I don’t think it is similar to what is done in the US at all.
Title gore to mobilise ( not accusing the author, the source rather) ? Or is that just merging pyramids into bigger ones without firing people or abandoning missions? Feels like the second seeing the expected reduction in public deficit.