Hollande Business Policies Faulted by French Executives

French corporate leaders criticized Socialist President Francois Hollande’s government for policies they say hurt companies already battered by a slowing economy and decades of business-unfriendly practices.

“Each week, steps voted in parliament are slowing public and private actions,” Guillaume Poitrinal, chief executive officer of Unibail-Rodamco SE, Europe’s largest publicly traded property owner, said yesterday at a conference organized by the French employers’ group Medef on the outskirts of Paris. “We have a frenzy of regulations. In an accelerating world, we need more flexibility for companies, more flexibility on labor, and we need quicker public action.”