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Debt and public spending, Fabien Roussel

Handling of the debt: Get the ECB to lend to States at zero, even negative, rates

Direction of change: change of another kind, or uncertain direction, compared with current law.

The lever. What the programme plans for public debt: repayment, ring-fencing, buyback or cancellation by the central bank, restructuring. Direction rule: ↑ higher targeted debt; ↓: debt reduced.

« Et avec la force du peuple, nous mènerons une grande bataille en Europe, pour que la Banque centrale européenne prête à taux zéro, voire à taux négatif aux États, aux communes, à ceux qui travaillent et qui investissent justement au service du peuple et du climat. »1

Translation by the editorsAnd with the strength of the people, we will wage a great battle in Europe so that the European Central Bank lends at zero, or even negative, rates to States, to municipalities, to those who work and who invest precisely in the service of the people and the climate.

Words of Fabien Roussel, pcf.fr, « Meeting de Marseille - Discours de Fabien Roussel », 23 November 2025. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme.

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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. Public debt (Maastricht) at end-2025: €3,460.5bn, i.e. 115.6% of GDP. OFCE forecasts: 118.3% in 2026, 119.8% in 2027. General government interest charges: €64.7bn in 2025, i.e. 2.2% of GDP (OFCE: 2.4% in 2026, 2.6% in 2027). Average maturity of State debt: 8.5 years (April 2026).

Horizon. Not applicable in static costing; sensitivity given as a benchmark.

Limits. The « traitement » (treatment) of the debt (cancellation of securities held by the Banque de France, restructuring, ring-fencing, forced loan) is a matter of European law and market confidence: it is not costed statically. Sensitivity benchmark: +100 basis points across the whole yield curve add €3.1bn of interest charges in the 1st year, €7.5bn in the 2nd, €18.4bn in the 5th, €32.1bn in the 10th (negotiable State debt); +1 point of inflation adds €3.0bn (index-linked securities). To be used to assess the effect of a programme on the risk premium, separately from the central figure.

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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  1. pcf.fr, « Meeting de Marseille - Discours de Fabien Roussel », 23 November 2025. Words of Fabien Roussel. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme. Read the source (pcf.fr, « Meeting de Marseille - Discours de Fabien Roussel »).

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