The editorial by Vincent Trémolet de Villers: “Weak France”

We are therefore left with the grievances of Marine Tondelier and Olivier Faure, degrowth leaning on the arm of archaism. Petits fours, taxes, suspension of pension reform…Éric Lombard, the Minister of the Economy, spares no effort to seduce them. Apparently, he confuses negotiation with concession. The painting has something unreal about it. A ruined country, over-indebted, without a budget, with a president and a prime minister who only satisfy one in five French people, a society more right-wing than ever and government policy which, between socialists and ecologists, opens the only horizon to suspension a vital reform for our economy. To add to the disaster, in the gold medal country of compulsory deduction, our eggheads continue to imagine how to tax a little more those who already suffer the crushing burden of tax. The “rich” will pay, once again, in the name of “tax justice”. Nothing is less equitable, however, than this “justice…