Gauthier Delomez 11:56 a.m., March 26, 2024

While France's public deficit rose to 5.5% of GDP in 2023, Marc Fiorentino, financial markets specialist, said in the show "Pascal Praud et vous", to be listened to every day from 11 to 1 p.m. on Europe 1, that the country was “the dunce of the euro zone”. Listen to the excerpt again. You can react at 01.80.20.39.21.

With a public deficit of 5.5% of GDP, is France last in class in Europe? In any case, this is the meaning of the reflection carried out by Marc Fiorentino, specialist in financial markets, in the show

Pascal Praud et vous

. According to him, two reasons explain the State's difficulties in reducing public spending: "Firstly a lack of political courage, and secondly, we are a dunce within the euro zone to whom we have always given a score of 10 (out of 10). However, if you are a dunce and you are given a score of 10, you are not working.