Guest of “8h30 franceinfo” on October 14, 2026, the Minister of the Economy, Finance, Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty Roland Lescure defended his highly criticized draft budget.
While France's 10-year borrowing rate is now close to 5% and the spread, the difference between the French rate and the German rate, exceeded 130 points on Friday (a record for 20 years), the minister affirmed:"We have the confidence of the markets, in the sense that we have no problems issuing debt.".
He also indicated that “we will have to balance if we spend more on youth” and that “we can change the priorities of the budget”, while observing that “we cannot change the overall framework”.