Senators Christine Lavardée (Les Repleins) and Pierre Barros (Communist Party), rapporteur and chair of the Senate inquiry committee into the missions of state agencies, operators, and consultative bodies, in Paris, July 3, 2025. Philippe Krihang/Photobucket/Lils.
The Senate inquiry committee examined, on Thursday, July 3, an “archipelago” of well-known state agencies and operators and noted a “lack of visibility” regarding the true costs of these structures. However, the committee does not rule out the feasibility of savings of several billion euros, but not “fixed missions.”
The work of this committee and its expected results were examined in particular, while Prime Minister François Bayrou’s announcements, planned for mid-July, should lay the groundwork for a budget debate that promises to be fraught with risks.
Under the terms of this inquiry, senators have drawn up a panorama of 434 operators, 317 consultative organizations, and 1,153 national public bodies; “An archipelago with unclear borders” whose precise borders are unknown to the state itself, according to the investigative committee’s report.
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