Job cuts, cuts in health and unemployment insurance: when the Medef celebrates the social destruction of the Bayrou budget
Welcoming the Prime Minister's "good diagnosis" of public deficits and his budgetary austerity plan, the boss of the bosses opened his organization's back-to-school universities this Wednesday, stating that there was no alternative to the bloodletting of public spending.
"Bravo Bayrou," exclaimed Patrick Martin on July 15, welcoming the super-austerity 2026 budget proposal presented by the Prime Minister. A month and a half later, the boss of the bosses changed his tune, opening the Meeting of French Entrepreneurs (REF) this Wednesday, August 27.
At these Medef back-to-school universities, there is no longer any question of popping champagne to celebrate the host of Matignon, yet another watchdog of the "pro-business" supply-side policy.
The time has come to dig the trenches to, if not save Private Bayrou, who has just linked his fate to a vote of confidence on September 8th – and who was due to speak again on Wednesday evening during the TF1 news – at least preserve the procession of largesse that the State has reserved for businesses since the advent of Macronism.
During his opening speech at an event with the overdramatized title ("Decisive Game, Time to Choose") held on the central court of Roland-Garros,...
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