Currently, the French government is facing interest rates of nearly 4% for ten-year bonds, significantly higher than Germany’s 3.2%. This increase of 0.8 percentage points since February marks the steepest rise since the European debt crisis of 2009, when smaller Eurozone nations triggered widespread financial instability. The situation is exacerbated by France’s political impasse, as Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s minority government struggles to negotiate a viable budget, rendering a proposed €44 billion austerity package politically unfeasible. Given the scale of potential financial interventions, the prospect of a bailout akin to previous crises appears unlikely.