French mayors have warned the Macron government that the country is heading “straight into the wall” over surging energy costs in the country.
Municipality energy cost increases of up to 400 per cent will drive significant portions of France “straight into the wall” in 2023, a host of mayors have warned the country’s government, with local leadership now reportedly struggling to even conceive how they could possibly balance the budget of their local regions.
The warning comes as an ever more desperate administration helmed by President Emmanuel Macron tries desperately to keep a handle on the ongoing energy crisis, with the head of state himself no repeatedly urging citizens to practice “energy sobriety” as the central European state enters a period which he calls the “end of abundance“.
However, such efforts — which in recent days even extended to crushing strike action by local oil workers — appear to be failing, with leaders within the region of Paris publicly warning the national executive that they would be able to survive the energy prices of the coming year.
“We are going straight into the wall,” Le Figaro reports mayors from the region, which is the most populous in France, as saying.
One official in particular, Romain Colas of Boussy-Saint-Antoine, is reported by the publication as expressing complete bewilderment as how he could possibly balance his town’s public finances, with the leader expecting gas prices alone to rise by 500 per cent next year.
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