Hollande Pro-Business Turn Has Companies Saying Show Me

French President Francois Hollande may be changing his political spots.

The Socialist leader’s plans to cut costs for companies prompted headlines in French newspapers last week questioning whether Hollande, who once famously said finance was his “greatest adversary,” is turning into a pro-business reformer. Le Monde said “Socialist or Freemarketeer: Inquiry Into the Hollande Doctrine,” Le Journal du Dimanche pondered on the “Reasons for the About-Face,” and Le Figaro declared “The President is Turning Against the Current.”