LIVE - Increase in the minimum wage: the CGT denounces “crumbs” and calls for a strike on November 17

By Amaury Coutansais-Pervinquière, Anaïs Chaline and Marie-Pierre Haddad

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Under pressure from demonstrators and without financial margin, Sébastien Lecornu tries on Monday to respond to the social anger expressed for several weeks by unions and youth.

The increase in the fuel premium ceiling will be extended

“We are going to extend the increase in the ceiling on the fuel premium into 2027,” added Roland Lescure.

“On the minimum wage, we anticipate the increase in the minimum wage on January 1 and to increase it by 1.6%,” explained the Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou. “It’s 75 euros net on the value of the minimum wage in 2026.” It will therefore be “1502 euros per month from December”.

“There are political concerns about the future,” said the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, after a social conference at the Hôtel de Matignon, adding that “the increase in the minimum wage is not enough.”

Public finances: the Court of Auditors proposes a plan to save up to 38 billion euros

The Court of Auditors proposed Monday in a report a set of 18 measures that could be applied from next year to restore public finances, representing “up to 38 billion euros in savings”, of which “11 to 14 billion euros” already appear in the 2027 budget. Among the proposed measures include in particular a “non-revaluation of social benefits (excluding social minima)”, with a saving estimated by the Court of Auditors at 4.8 billion in 2027.

It also proposes the “suspension for one year of advancements and promotions in the public service” (for 3.9 billion euros), an “increase to 13% of the intermediate VAT rate from 10%” (for 4.3 billion) or “better control of reductions in social security contributions” (3.5 billion). “We are at a special moment. Today budgetary discussions resume in the Senate", while "the deterioration of growth prospects reopens the debate on the content of the measures to be proposed in the budget for 2027", underlined the first president of the Court of Auditors, Amélie de Montchalin, during a press conference.

“We, financial magistrates of the Court of Auditors, consider that we cannot simply reiterate the warnings” and “that we can, even that we must, contribute to enlightening parliamentarians on the solutions”, with “a range of possible measures, precise and quantified, to reduce the deficit”, she added.

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