Overview

• In a new interview published Monday, Bruno Le Maire says the 2024 dissolution “cut short” efforts to restore public finances after he planned €30 billion in savings over six months.
• He argues the halt to production‑tax cuts and a stalled simplification law undermined investor trust, with business failures rising and industrial jobs being lost.
• He warns that the same conditions will drive faster deindustrialization if policy does not return to a production‑focused path.
• He links the policy rupture to France’s Fitch downgrade this month and calls the unfinished fiscal repair a personal failure.
• Rejecting a Zucman‑style wealth tax, he pushes for stronger taxation of Big Tech and defends his record citing 650 factory openings and advances in batteries, hydrogen and nuclear.