"The Employment budget will increase in particular by 6.7 billion, in particular in order to finance the rise in power of apprenticeship, with a target of 1 million apprentices by the end of the five-year period", details- he.

National Education "will benefit from a historic increase (+3.6 billion) in its credits. The commitment of the President of the Republic to the continuation of the salary increase will be kept and no teacher will enter the career at less than 2,000 euros net", continues Mr. Attal.

The "sovereign bloc" including the Ministries of Defence, Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs are not left out, further reassures the minister, with an increased budget of "6.1 billion euros" .

"A very significant increase that we assume in order to meet in particular the commitment of an increase of 3 billion in the credits of the Armies in 2023, but also the objectives of the Beauvau of security, which provides for the doubling of the presence of the forces of the armed forces. order on the ground by 2030," he said.

"The Justice budget will benefit from a further increase of 8%, after already two years of increases of the same amounts, in order to continue the recruitment of new magistrates and to respect the plans for the construction of new prison places", assures he still.

As for the Ministries of Environmental Transition, Territorial Cohesion and Agriculture, they "will have an additional 3.3 billion euros".

Mr. Attal, on the other hand, does not provide any details on the savings projects that will have to be made to balance this budget.

“Broad public spending will fall by 0.3% in volume terms next year,” he said.

"The document (...) provides that the appropriations of the State budget will amount to 339 billion euros in 2023, i.e. virtual stability in value compared to the level post-amendment finance law, and a decrease of 2.5% in volume. This will make it possible to meet the objective of a deficit of 5% of GDP next year while financing our priorities", he puts forward.

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