Debt and public spending, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Level of public spending: €30bn savings in 5 years (about 2%), agencies and administrative layers
Direction of change: decrease, compared with current law.
The lever. Targeted change in total public spending (State, social security, local authorities), in volume or as a share of gross domestic product. Direction rule: ↑ higher public spending.
« Supprimer le millefeuille administratif et les agences d’État inutiles. Sur les 1 700 milliards d’euros formant la dépense publique, il est possible d’économiser 30 milliards en 5 ans, soit environ 2 %. »1Translation by the editorsAbolish the administrative layers and useless State agencies. Of the €1,700 billion making up public spending, it is possible to save €30 billion in 5 years, or about 2%.
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Amount announced with no readable annual amount for this position alone: « il est possible d’économiser 30 milliards en 5 ans » [“it is possible to save 30 billion in 5 years”]
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Target of €30bn savings in five years: it is compared with the sum of the costed measures, not added to it.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Public spending 2025: €1,714bn, i.e. 57.2% of GDP (57.0% in 2024); euro area 49.8%, Germany 50.5%. European norm: net primary expenditure capped at +1.2% in 2026, 2027 and 2028 and +1.1% in 2029 (Council recommendation of 21 January 2025).
Horizon. Ratio in 2032; gap with the PSMT path.
Limits. Targeted level of spending, not a measure: consistency check against the sum of costed measures. Outcome lever, not a measure lever: it serves as a consistency check against the sum of measures. Fipeco: « l'écart de 6,7 points avec l'Allemagne = 200 Md€ » [“the gap of 6.7 points with Germany = €200bn”].
- Fipeco, Définition, niveau et répartition des dépenses publiques, 2026-05-15: « En 2025, les dépenses publiques s'élèvent en France à 1 714 Md€, soit l'équivalent de 57,2 points de PIB ... Celles de l'Allemagne représentent 50,5 % de son PIB, soit un écart de 6,7 points avec la France (200 Md€ ...) »
- Sénat, L'essentiel sur le RAA 2026, 2026-04: « Recommandation du Conseil 0,8 % 1,2 % 1,2 % 1,2 % 1,1 % [2025-2029] ... Total 5,50 % »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
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