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		<title>Why France’s VAT Revenue Shortfall Is Shaking the 2025 Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[France faces a multibillion-euro VAT revenue shortfall in 2025, forcing urgent government action and new]]></description>
		
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		<title>France&#8217;s Political and Budgetary Fragility Places &#8220;Insecurity&#8221; on Europe, According to François Hollande</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Former President François Hollande warns of the consequences of a budgetary failure in France on]]></description>
		
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		<title>Public holidays, decentralization, Zucman Tax&#8230; Sébastien Lecornu makes Announcements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Politics: This Saturday, in front of seven journalists from the regional daily press, the new]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sébastien Lecornu announces the Creation of a &#8220;France Santé&#8221; Network to Facilitate Access to Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sébastien Lecornu went to Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire) this Saturday 13th September 2025. A first trip as]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tax cuts, PMAs, Unemployment, Retirement: What to Remember from Edouard Philippe&#8217;s Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister was speaking to the Assembly on Wednesday 12th June 2019 for his]]></description>
		
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		<title>Almost Three Out of Four French People Support a Referendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2019 23:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[73% of respondents favour a referendum in France in the coming months. Nearly three quarters]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Yellow Vests&#8221;: Macron &#8220;No Longer the Choice, You Must Share Power&#8221; according to Laurent Berger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Plant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SOCIAL: According to the general secretary of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, there is &#8220;a risk&#8221; that]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m not Arrogant, I am Determined&#8221; Macron Responds to his Critics in &#8220;Der Spiegel&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2017/10/im-not-arrogant-i-determined-macron-responds-critics-der-spiegel/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Plant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 07:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The head of state gave a long interview published Saturday in the German weekly &#8220;Der]]></description>
		
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		<title>Michel Sapin Defended the &#8220;Seriousness&#8221; of its Budget in 2017</title>
		<link>https://chb44.com/2016/09/michel-sapin-defended-seriousness-budget-2017/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spanner44]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michel Sapin on Wednesday defended the &#8220;serious&#8221; and &#8220;coherence&#8221; of its draft budget for 2017,]]></description>
		
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