Bruno Le Maire: “We need drastic simplification measures for businesses”

2023-12-02 21:29:50

It is in his imposing office, all made of glass, on the seventh floor of the citadel of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, that Bruno Le Maire receives Le Parisien – Today in France this Friday, December 1 at the end of the day -noon. The minister is relieved. He has known for a few hours that Standard & Poor’s (S&P) will announce late this evening that it is maintaining France’s rating. The most influential rating agency, however, attached its sentence to a negative outlook due to “uncertainty” regarding “France’s public finances in a context of high budget deficit, although slowly falling, and a high public debt.