While many CEOs and France’s wealthiest are resisting demands for greater fiscal fairness in the 2026 budget, Pascal Demurger, managing director of the MAIF insurance company, says he and others must pay more if France is to move forward.
Soaking up France’s deficit means saving €44 billion in next year's budget. And an already deeply divided parliament can’t work out how to do it: the left wants a wealth tax, the right wants cuts in public spending.
