After Summer’s Growth Revisions, Macron Has Budget Work Cut Out
French President Emmanuel Macron will make the tough political choices needed to meet his deficit commitments, his government spokesman said, as he looked to put a bodyguard scandal behind him at his first Cabinet meeting after the summer break. Macron and his ministers in all likelihood need to find savings in next year's budget, to be presented to parliament next month, if they are to prevent the deficit from ballooning once again. The president faced his first crisis in the summer when video surfaced of bodyguard Alexandre Benalla beating a protester. Macron's own aloof response fanned public discontent. Now the 40-year-old leader returns to work facing difficult political choices as he embarks on a new wave of reforms to reform the pensions system, overhaul public healthcare and shake-up the highly…