Since the economy is upside down, Bruno Le Maire and Gérald Darmanin play the "Dupond and Dupont" of the Adventures of Tintin. Like the two look-alikes, each saying the same thing in slightly different forms, the two Bercy ministers keep adding to each other. So Tuesday, June 2, under a shining sun, the Minister of Economy and Finance dropped at the bend of a sentence on RTL that the recession of French GDP would not be 8% but 11% in 2020. And , a few hours later, before the finance committee of the National Assembly, the Minister of Action and Public Accounts warns that the deficit would reach 11.4% of GDP this year instead of the 9.2% envisaged until so.
Everyone knows that public finances are the distraught seismograph of economic activity, the crisis of which results in more public spending, aid and less tax revenue. And as in the comic strip where the "Dupondts" have the
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