Paris, Dec. 24 -- Lawmakers in France's National Assembly and Senate on Tuesday adopted a "special law" proposed by the government to extend the 2025 budget into next year, before resuming work on a final 2026 budget in January.
The move followed the failure of a joint committee of lawmakers from the National Assembly and the Senate on Dec. 19 to reach a compromise on the country's 2026 state budget, raising the prospect that France would enter the new year without a fully adopted budget.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu had earlier said that the government would not resort to Article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows legislation to be adopted without a parliamentary vote and has been used in previous years to push budgets through a ...