At the beginning of March, in the early days of the coronavirus crisis, the roadmap to Bercy seemed crystal clear. Initially, the State was going to put all the necessary means to support businesses: partial unemployment, postponement of tax deadlines, solidarity fund for very small businesses… Then, once the peak of the epidemic passed, a recovery plan by the offer, coordinated at European level, would take over. A month later, the lines blurred. The decision to confine the population plunged the economy into forced hibernation.
" The economic impact will be considerable, it is still far too early to assess it, since it will be very directly linked to the duration of confinement, " warned the Prime Minister in the Senate on Wednesday. In this context, the priority for the executive is more than ever to avoid bankruptcies. Tens and tens of billions of euros of public funds are mobilized for this purpose. While neither the final cost of these
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