2023-09-22 21:49:20
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, and the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, on August 29, at the employers’ union summer school. Raphael Lafargue/ABACA
STORY – Pointed out about inflation, upset by interventions by Bercy, certain business leaders are at odds with the minister.
Six years of living together. Between Bruno Le Maire and French employers, the time is no longer for illusions. The first is no longer surprised to hear leaders, who constantly come to Bercy asking for subsidies and tax credits, publicly indignant at its inability to clean up public accounts.
The latter know well that for a political coup, the minister will sacrifice, without even thinking about it, their interests. Everyone has their own goals; the rules of the game are known. At the start of the school year, the peaceful course of these relations, a combination of enamored official speeches, more or less cordial dinners and friendly private attacks, however takes a more agitated turn.
Ubuesque
In the Parisian dining rooms, the barbs against the minister are becoming bitter. “How to increase the employment rate in France? The Mayor only has to ask Pouyanné (the boss of Total, Editor’s note) because he only knows how to do that!», angrily says, in the early morning, a financier, in allusion to the regular injunctions of the tenant of Bercy…
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