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How to get out of "whatever it takes"?

2022-12-28T19:20:45.693Z


ANALYSIS – After having poured more than 250 billion euros since 2020 to fight against the Covid crisis, then against inflation, the government must this year rebalance the presence of the State in the economy. A perilous tipping point.


This is a phrase that we have heard in the mouth of the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, for many months now:

“The “whatever it costs”, it is over.”

And to explain that the government has embarked on a much more targeted policy of support for households and businesses, because, now,

“the State is close to the euro”.

Finally, almost… After having poured 140 billion between 2020 and 2022 to fight against the Covid crisis, it is an additional 110 billion, budgeted between 2021 and 2023 to fight against inflation, that the executive has planned to put on the table .

The government is, in fact, struggling to juggle a rhetoric about the end of “whatever it takes” and a daily newspaper where it continues to pull out its checkbook to protect households and businesses from the outbreak. energy prices.

Between the need to show that he realizes that he can no longer continue on the same path with public finances and his decision not to, as he says, let

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Source: lefigaro

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