Dear subscribers,
Phew!
"The debate is closed."
It's not me who says it, it's the main person concerned, Bruno Le Maire. It was time; for a month, it has been impossible to have a professional meeting without the question “but what is Bruno Le Maire playing?” does not impose itself in the conversation. The President of the Republic delivered last Thursday, as part of a trip on the war economy in the company of his minister, his version of "I decide, he executes": "
There is no disagreement in the French Republic, there has never been one because it doesn’t work like that.”
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has restored order to government communication, which a boss described to me a few days earlier:
“It's a real kaleidoscope, we're losing our minds trying to understand.”
And Bruno Le Maire closed the sequence:
“I made proposals. The president has made his decision. Once the president has made his arbitration, we apply the president’s arbitration.”
But let’s come back…