Finance law 2024: the government wants to continue monitoring social networks to fight fraud

2023-12-21 17:00:08 LéA GIRARDOT / “THE WORLD” Bercy will be able to continue to hunt down fraudsters on online sales platforms and cast its net on social networks. The finance bill for 2024, definitively adopted Thursday, December 21, extends for two years and expands an experiment which, since 2021, has allowed the Ministry of the … Read more

French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire’s Reaction to S&P Global’s Rating of France’s Economy

2023-12-01 23:28:31 French Minister of Economy, Finance, Industry and Digital Security, Bruno le Maire, in Paris, November 8, 2023. CLAUDIA GRECO / REUTERS The government had prepared the ground, just in case. In recent days, during lunches with the press, various ministers had suggested that the situation was not necessarily looking very good for France, … Read more

France’s Credit Rating Maintained by S&P Global Ratings: Analysis and Reactions

2023-12-01 21:32:52 The rating agency S&P Global Ratings maintained France’s credit rating at AA on Friday, December 1, which remains “with a negative outlook” due to a “uncertainty” as to “public finances of France in a context of high, albeit slowly declining, budget deficit and high public debt”. In a message published onBruno Le Maire … Read more

Argentina’s Economic Challenges: High Inflation, IMF Loan Repayment, and Political Actions

2023-11-26 22:14:26 Kristalina Georgieva, for her part, indicated on the same network that this exchange had allowed them to address “the important challenges of the Argentine economy and the necessary decisive political actions”. 143% inflation this year Latin America’s third-largest economy is struggling to repay a colossal loan of $44 billion, taken out in 2018 … Read more

Swiss Confederation Financial Struggles: Impact of Covid-19 and Ukraine War

2023-11-22 19:28:13 Published on November 22, 2023 at 8:28 p.m. / Modified on November 22, 2023 at 9:06 p.m. Long a model student in keeping its accounts, the Confederation finds itself struggling. The turning point first occurred with the Covid-19 pandemic, and its sudden expenditure of some 30 billion francs. Then the war between Russia … Read more

behind the sixteenth 49.3, a compromise to facilitate the adoption of the end-of-management finance bill

2023-11-08 09:00:56 Elisabeth Borne, Prime Minister, during questions to the government, at the National Assembly, November 7, 2023. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP Sometimes a 49.3 can hide a vote in session. Tuesday, November 7 at the very end of the evening, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne once again had recourse to this article of the Constitution … Read more

Moody’s Maintains France’s Aa2 Credit Rating: Implications on Debt Reduction and Future Trajectory

2023-10-20 22:46:09 The rating agency Moody’s indicated on Friday October 20 that it had not updated France’s credit rating, in the midst of studying the 2024 budget in Parliament. The Aa2 rating, one of the best possible, is retained and the outlook remains stable, which means that the agency is not considering changing its rating … Read more