How much does France's debt cost? How do deficits arise? 13 graphs to understand France's public finance crisis - Le Monde.fr
How much does France's debt cost? How do deficits arise? 13 graphs to understand France's public finance crisis - Le Monde.fr
Source: Le Monde.fr
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France ran a 5.5% deficit in 2024. That required €50 billion in annual interest payments — money that buys nothing, builds nothing, employs no one. Le Monde frames this as a crisis of understanding. It is a crisis of compounding: every deficit year makes the next one harder to close, because the interest bill keeps climbing whether or not you fix the underlying imbalance.