Bruno Le Maire wants the end of the French welfare state. “We must replace the welfare state with the protective state,” explains the minister.
According to him, the current model has as its “ultimate goal free everything, for everyone, all the time: it is untenable!” The minister believes that "the time for choices has come", to escape from the "mirage of universal free access" He argues by citing in particular the aging of the population, with old age which "weighs heavily on social accounts"