Macron Wants to Teach the French to Love Their Private Companies
- French government begins consultation with business leaders
- ‘All French people need to benefit,’ finance minister says
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President Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to change French culture to make the population less instinctively hostile to private enterprise.
“I’m struck by the difference of the reality of life in companies and the way they are perceived in public discourse -- especially by politicians,” Stanislas Guerini, a lawmaker in Macron’s Republic En Marche party, said in an interview. “There is often a black and white view whereby small companies are seen as wonderful resources and big groups are just hungry for profits.”