Of the total amount, 3.02 billion euros, including 1.44 billion for security, went to the organization of the events. In addition, 3.63 billion euros was spent on infrastructure projects. The original estimate of the costs in June was 5.9 billion euros.
The chairman of the National Court of Audit, Pierre Moscovici, was thinking of an amount of “three, maybe four, five billion euros” last year. The former French finance minister said on Monday that there had been “no question of budgetary over -spending” and that the government costs were ‘controlled’.