Overview

• The audit details about €81 million in cumulative net losses since 2017, a fall in equity from €294 million to €179 million, and a 2025 budget shortfall of €40 million.
• Magistrates blame rising payroll and operating costs, a rigid 2013 collective agreement, and generous benefits, and call for swift renegotiation and cost controls.
• France Télévisions says it accepts all recommendations and has begun implementing them, while the Court presses the State to set a realistic financing path.
• Political pressure is mounting, with RN figures renewing calls to privatize public broadcasting and to replace Delphine Ernotte.
• In the broader budget fight, Medef announced an “enormous meeting” against tax increases but employers are divided and unions have called a new nationwide mobilisation for 2 October after talks with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.