MEDEF criticism Sarkozy !!

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End of the honeymoon between Nicolas Sarkozy and Medef
By Gwénaëlle Barzic Reuters -
Wednesday September 24, 19:36 p.m. PARIS (Reuters) -

Nostalgia for communism, "aberrant" taxes, Laurence Parisot does not mince words on government policy: would the break already be consumed between the "boss of the bosses" and Nicolas Sarkozy?

We expected a warm social return, but it was the employers, who had welcomed the coming to power of the French president, that came the most virulent critics against the economic choices of the executive.

Twice in the space of a week, the president of Medef banged her fist on the table to denounce the increase in compulsory contributions, announcing a "disaster" scenario if the government did not reverse the trend.

Black beasts of the boss: the "aberration" of the creation of a transport bonus, the ecological bonus-malus system inspired by a "quasi-Soviet ideology" and the increase in old age contributions decided, according to her, without consultation by the Prime Minister.

A year ago, however, she was delighted with the "really new breath that crosses our country" on the occasion of Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to the Medef summer school, the first of a sitting president. .

Last December, she presented 2007 as an "extraordinary year for our country, for companies, for Medef", stressing that the arrival of Nicolas Sarkozy had brought "a change of pace and therefore of era".

DISAPPOINTMENT

His laudatory statements on the action taken by the Head of State have even earned him to be accused of "groupie" by the secretary general of the CFDT, François Chérèque.

The honeymoon seems to have ended.

For Marc Touati, CEO of Global Equities, this change of tone between employers and power is explained by the disappointment felt by business leaders who had placed a lot of hope in the promise of rupture.

"The Medef has the feeling a little bit of having been taken in," he explains. "Businesses today realize that the rupture did not take place, that the recession is here."

"There was a very strong expectation, perhaps too much expectation in this break announced by the president and as it did not take place, obviously there are disappointments," he said.

For Eric Heyer, from the analysis and forecasts department of the French Economic Observatory (OFCE), Nicolas Sarkozy had seduced the Medef during the presidential campaign by taking an offensive speech on the mode "We have too many compulsory deductions, we do not work not enough "," the two fads of Medef ", he emphasizes.

During the first year of his mandate, the Head of State "did what was necessary to satisfy the Medef" and even went beyond, he explains, by going "very far in the deregulation of work "and with the tax package that" Medef could only applaud ".

ROLLERCOASTER

But, for the economic analyst, the tax package did not produce the expected effects and the government was caught up by the international financial crisis. "The French economy is doing as badly as the others," he emphasizes.

In order not to become "the black sheep of Brussels", France must find funding and can no longer afford to lower compulsory levies, adds Eric Heyer.

"I do not know if there has ever been a honeymoon" between Laurence Parisot and Nicolas Sarkozy, wonders for his part Stéphane Rozès, director general of the CSA institute, for whom the president of the Medef "is rather on a liberal orientation "while the head of state is a" pragmatist ".

Their "relations are rather a roller coaster because Nicolas Sarkozy can have tropisms and slopes spontaneously probably more liberal than it seems (but) he manages a country and the management of a country, it is not exactly running a business, ”he explains.

Laurence Parisot is very critical of government policy but "at the same time, she is not hard against Nicolas Sarkozy" himself to whom she admires, underlines Fanny Guinochet, who wrote her biography.

For this journalist, Laurence Parisot, who is in mid-term and that the affair of the secret funds of the UIMM (Union of industries and professions of metallurgy) has shaken a lot, has "an interest in terms of strategy to re-weld its troops "by holding a" unifying speech "against the increase in compulsory levies.

Gwénaelle Barzic, edited by Yves Clarisse

[Remundo]

Pout...

They can do the comedy of I love you either. Same with the unions.

The truth is that France's industrial tool has been in deep decline for decades, so the French, through their State, also.

In return, the State intensified all its levies, and yet gradually became over-indebted: also the obligations which went without saying in the past have become insurmountable: housing, transport, health expenses ... Neither the individual, nor businesses, neither the state is able to respond financially.

Worse, now that French industrial production is tiny, Hundreds of billions of euros are going abroad, financing investments / modernization outside of France, and placing us at the mercy of inflation since an internal demand for products without local production drives up prices, on the one hand by decreasing the national supply, and on the other hand with the costs of transporting goods.

Because France has placed itself in a downward spiral by a frenzied neglect of all its sources of wealth, and by the maintenance at all costs of its ambitious social system, the French, the State and the SMEs are only beggars giving each other alms, digging a little more each minute the hole in their common wallet: this is where the country is.