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French mayors' congress rejects €11bn budget cuts slated for 2025

The 106th Congress of French Mayors opened on Tuesday, 19 November 2024 at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris. AFP - THOMAS SAMSON

French mayors and local councillor associations have united to oppose proposed cuts of up to €11 billion in the 2025 draft budget proposed by Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

In a rare joint press conference on the side-lines of the 106th Congress of Mayors, local councillor associations reiterated their strong opposition to what they described as cuts amounting to between €10 and €11 billion in the proposed 2025 budget, which the government has labelled as "five billion euros of savings".

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