There is the end of the world, but also the end of the month. Beyond the measures expected to deal with the climate and energy crisis, Elisabeth Borne’s speech this Monday at the Medef summer university will also be scrutinized for the course it will give on the question of the power of purchase, while the Prime Minister put pressure on companies by raising the possibility of taxation of the “superprofits” of multinationals.
Real threat or rhetorical exercise? In any case, Elisabeth Borne said on Saturday in an interview with the “Parisien” not to “close the door” to a taxation of exceptional profits made by certain multinationals in the midst of a crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. Until now, the executive had seemed more ostensibly opposed to such a device demanded by the left oppositions.