François Bayrou calls on the government to discuss a targeted tax increase. A possibility that Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and Finance, categorically refuses.
The MoDem boss also suggested that he was opposed to a new reform of unemployment insurance. “I do not believe that the main culprits of unemployment are the unemployed, especially since a certain number of them have lost work skills over time. We therefore need to reform them,” he judged. The probable announcement on Tuesday by INSEE of a public deficit in 2023 significantly higher than the 4.9% (of GDP) initially planned.