The budget hole UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has to fill will be smaller than widely feared because unexpectedly strong pay growth has offset an anticipated productivity downgrade, according to the Resolution Foundation https://t.co/OBaEkMhz4K ...

France’s Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said his party will give the country’s minority government more time to come up with a budget it deems acceptable before deciding whether to use its power in parliament to topple the administration https://t.co/bGx9P4CHcO ...

France has no tradition of cross-party parliamentary compromise. So differences are being fought out in the fragmented lower house in order to try to pass a budget by the end of December. “We’re learning the hard way,” Roland Lescure told The Economist https://t.co/17wXZwLX2i https://t.co/KmWD9gMFQ9 ...

The chancellor has told allies the Nov. 26 statement will be a major budget requiring bigger measures https://t.co/swlQgWwha2 ...

Angola plans to cut spending by a modest 1.7% next year to 33.24 trillion kwanza ($31.2 billion), according to budget document posted on Finance Ministry website https://t.co/zfBKLuBDJs ...

“We have to change the culture of the French political class.” On “Money Talks” Roland Lescure, France’s finance minister, defends the case for compromise in order to pass a problematic budget https://t.co/ThpJwsuxSp ...

The uglier the French budget gets after the floodgates were opened on amendments, the harder it will be to get it voted through. https://t.co/P0DjwJXEgz ...

France’s Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said he’s seeking a compromise with the government to make the budget work, easing back from brinkmanship that risks toppling the prime minister https://t.co/aKcr4ad9eA ...

Because France’s new minority government needs the votes of the 69 Socialists the left has real negotiating clout.“This will not be a socialist budget,” insists Roland Lescure in an interview with The Economist https://t.co/nskwQNnM4K ...

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how to pass a budget that keeps bringing down the French government https://t.co/OaQZZbvQMW ...