Attal does not want tax increases for the middle classes, but does not rule out taxing super profits. “France is not a tax haven for anyone,” the Prime Minister then declared, when asked about an increase in taxes for the wealthiest households.

‘I have never had a dogma on the subject,’ he declared in particular before recalling that energy companies and biology laboratories had already been subject to a specific tax. “I would not like us to forget that public finances serve an economic policy objective,” he argued.