The State shareholder plans to reduce the budgets of both groups by a total of over 100 million euros by 2025. Their leaders warn that these cuts are likely to result in deficits.
At the end of September, the new Finance Minister, Laurent Saint-Martinhad announced the color. Priority to spending cuts. Since then, he has continued to hammer home this message. The government will “ a minima ” 40 billion in spending cuts as part of the finance bill 2025to reduce France’s high public deficit. And public broadcasting will not escape the cut.
Its heavyweight, France Télévisionsis in the front line. This year, the group will see its appropriations reduced by 33 million euros. In detail, this means 13 million euros of credit cancelled last February, to which must be added 20 million euros – a boost initially intended to accelerate the Group’s transformation efforts – the payment of which was cancelled at the beginning of November. Next year, the step will be a little higher. “ For 2025, it’s 86 million euros less