Agnès Verdier-Molinié: “To fill the public deficit, picking the pockets of the French and their businesses is no longer the solution” The 2023 budget shows a deficit of 16 billion euros. “No one seems ready to take responsibility for the gigantic 154 billion public deficit.

This is a serious matter that involves us all and could cost us dearly,” he says. The sequence is simply astonishing. We have the best technologists at Bercy, whether they are ministers or in our major departments, they went to the best schools, they would not have seen the iceberg of the 2023 deficit coming.