Q&A on the post-Barnier era

Nothing is certain in politics until the last minute. Maybe Michel Barnier, after some last-ditch compromises, will save his skin and, at the same time, France will enter 2025 with a properly enacted budget. But maybe not... So many politicians have downplayed the destabilising effects of a vote of no confidence in the budget and a fall of the government in recent days that it must be concluded that this has become the baseline scenario. What would happen next? There is an emergency budgetary procedure to deal with the most urgent problems, but this would only postpone adjustments and protract and compound economic and financial uncertainty