The load is brutal! “war profiteers“, there is no worse expression to designate the cynicism of those who enrich themselves while the Ukrainian people survive under the bombs and while the inflation generated by this conflict sweeps over all of Europe. The leader of the State was explicitly aimed at “producers and speculators“And we also saw him struggling, without much discretion, in front of the cameras to explain to Joe Biden that the Gulf countries had to be convinced to increase their oil production.
The G7 countries also want to weigh in to try to block the rise in world prices. The solution is therefore first and foremost international. But for Emmanuel Macron, the emergency is also national…
A message for the French?
Sure. Inflation is racing, fuel prices are breaking new records every week, above 2 euros 10 or 2 euros 20 per litre. And Emmanuel Macron fears that public opinion will reproach him for having embarked on this long international sequence – European Council in Brussels, G7 in Bavaria, and now NATO summit in Spain – at a time when our country is threatened with political blockage. . Tuesday, June 28, he therefore explained that the challenges of these major international meetings, the soaring prices of energy but also that of food products, directly concern the portfolio of the French.
And then this outburst coincides with another solemn warning, that of Bruno Le Maire who sounded the alarm signal on the public finance front. There “alert level is reached“launched the Minister of the Economy. So finished”magic money”and the “no matter what”…
No doubt and also that of the quest for new recipes. On the side of Matignon, we do not rule out the hypothesis of a tax on the superprofits of the large groups which have become rich since the start of the crisis.
Total, for example, is doing well, very well. Its profits soared by 48% in the first quarter of 2022. And the executive moderately appreciated the JDD forum in which the CEO of Total Patrick Pouyanné urged the French to immediately save energy. Since “soaring energy prices threaten our cohesion“, as he wrote, the executive could well ask the large groups to put their hands in their pockets to reinforce this “national cohesion”.