Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age by two years to 64 has ignited a debate in egalitarian-minded France: are the billionaires to blame?
As labour unions held a second massive strike on Tuesday, which drew hundreds of thousands of people on to the streets across the country, leftwing politicians have gone on the attack to argue that taxing the super-rich would be a better way to plug deficits in the state-run pension system.
In particular, Bernard Arnault, the world’s richest man and owner of French luxury group LVMH, has become a lightning rod with protesters at recent marches carrying signs with his face on a wanted poster and exhorting him to do more for the common good.
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