Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that he wants to reduce taxes for the middle classes by two billion euros. The middle classes regularly return to the heart of the political debate as they represent an important part of the French population.

Macron is not the first president to have understood this, says political scientist Bruno Cautrès. He warns that there are so many announcements in all directions that it is difficult to clearly see in this pile of measures. As a result, there is not expected to be a result which is "not expected to wow"