We went too far in use of consulting companies By Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) – The French authorities made extreme use of consultancy companies up to now and is now striving to right that, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire mentioned on Sunday.

Emmanuel Macron’s authorities has come beneath strain in latest months for being too depending on consultancy teams.

Monetary prosecutors mentioned earlier this week they had been investigating his election marketing campaign as a part of a wider probe into consultancy agency McKinsey and its hyperlinks to the president.

“We went too far. For years, this authorities and former governments relied an excessive amount of on consultancy companies. It drifted. This was corrected by the Prime Minister’s instruction that each one ministries lower by 15% the usage of consultancy companies,” Le Maire informed France 3 tv.

Between the primary half of 2021 and the primary half of 2022, the Finance Ministry had as an illustration managed to chop by 34% its use of consultancy companies, he added.

Le Maire didn’t touch upon information France’s nationwide monetary prosecutor’s workplace had widened the scope of an current probe into alleged tax fraud by consultancy group McKinsey to incorporate the function of consultancy teams within the 2017 and 2022 election races.

Macron on Friday mentioned his 2017 marketing campaign funds had been checked and cleared by judges in his first public feedback on the probe.

A report by the French Senate in March 2022 had notably identified that the federal government was “dependent” on consulting companies corresponding to McKinsey.