“Whatever it takes against the covid was justified, both permanent whatever it costs is not something we can afford.” During an interview with BFM Business, the First President of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici, points out to the government about the aid measures that weigh heavily on public finances.
“Specific and temporary” aid
Referring, among other things, to energy aid, the First President of the Court of Auditors considers that “the Government (…) has implemented spending that, under the guise of responses to the crisis, is proving to be of long duration”. lasting expenses.”
“From now on, additional public spending must be targeted and temporary. They must not be structural and permanent, we don’t have the means to do it,” says Pierre Moscovici, who says he is very concerned about our public finances, which he considers degraded”.
Pierre Moscovici advocates “good public spending (…) efficient and fair that prepares for the future.” There are sectors in which it is necessary to invest.
“Coping with deficits”
As for the pension reform whose mobilization against the text starts tomorrow, Pierre Moscovici’s position has nuances. In 2021, before the presidential elections, the Court of Accounts published a note on the challenges of the pension reform to “reabsorb deficits” and “strengthen equity”.
“The Court was one of those who thought that a reform was necessary… that our pension system was not bankable in the long term, that it was not sustainable and that we had to reduce this deficit”, explains Pierre Moscovici, also recalling that the The path recommended by the Court of Accounts was “to work longer”. On the other hand, he indicates that he has raised “the imperatives of equity” and that he has defended “the need to find a consensus.”
Source: BFM TV
