France: who are the winners and losers of the 2021 budget?
Prime Minister Jean Castex and Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire in the foreground, September 3, 2020. Ludovic Marin / Reuters
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In France, the government presented its 2021 budget project. Unsurprisingly, the spending of ministries will be subject to corrections.
But this time around, it's an overall increase of 3.8%.
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If Justice, the Interior and the Armies are the big winners of this increase, the big loser in terms of staff will be the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.
Among the winners, the Ministry of Justice saw its budget increase by 800 million euros, or nearly 8% more, to reach 8.2 billion euros.
This increase will finance 1,500 additional positions, after the 1,520 created this year.
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There will be 200 million euros more allocated to the Interior also, whose budget is now close to 14 billion euros.
This is an increase for the second consecutive year for Defense with 1.7 billion more and 286 new positions.
The idea is to finance new weapons programs in space defense and cybersecurity.
Job cuts
As for the winners again, Culture has been particularly affected by the crisis.
Its budget rose to 3 billion, but the ministry lost 65 positions.
It's the same situation with increased budgets, but job cuts, Ecology or National Education.
On the losing side, higher education and research or the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.
The latter lost more than 2,160 jobs, after 2,000 this year, but its expenses remained stable at 7.5 billion euros.
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