{"id":13238,"date":"2026-02-22T20:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/macron-announces-pick-for-new-budget-minister-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:44:01","slug":"macron-announces-pick-for-new-budget-minister-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/macron-announces-pick-for-new-budget-minister-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron announces pick for new budget minister \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PARIS \u2014 Emmanuel Macron has picked 33-year-old David Amiel to become France&#8217;s new budget minister, the French presidency announced on Sunday \u2014 a crucial role as the French government attempts to get its deficit under control amid a deep political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Amiel replaces Am\u00e9lie de Montchalin, a close ally of Macron who was appointed as head of France&#8217;s top court of auditors earlier this month. The controversial move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-audit-france-budget-amelie-de-montchalin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">led to accusations<\/a> that the French president was politicizing a key French institution.<\/p>\n<p>Navigating budgetary debates has proven&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-france-new-budget-minister-david-amiel\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS \u2014 Emmanuel Macron has picked 33-year-old David Amiel to become France&#8217;s new budget minister, the French presidency announced on Sunday \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-politique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}