FILE PHOTO: French Prime Minister Michel Barnier speaks during the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - France's national budget is so strained that lawmakers are pushing a proposal to make the French work an extra seven hours each year without pay - the equivalent of one working day - to generate extra funds for state coffers.
The measure, which was approved in the Senate upper house of parliament on Wednesday but which could still be thrown out of the final budget bill, would yield an extra 2.5 billion euros ($2.63 billion) in revenues from additional labour charges.
