Ankur Desai

The tax the left would like is named after this man, the Zuckman tax.

Very popular in the country, it would impose a minimum of 2% on people with wealth of more than 100 million euros.

To stop the very rich simply moving abroad, France would continue to claim tax on them extraterritorially, a bit like the way the United States taxes its citizens wherever they live in the world.

You have to pay a minimum.

The reason all this matters is that the state of French public finances is even worse than the UK's.

Alain Manc has advised French presidents since François Mitterrand.

He says being in the euro has been a mixed blessing because the shield it provides has exempted France from making the necessary economic reforms.

And what he fears now is the arrival of the populists, the hard right, Marine Le Pen.

Not so much for the economic damage they'll cause, the markets won't let them, but the other stuff.

We have seen the deployment of the military, the militarization of law enforcement in major cities that will actually be hosting the World Cup.

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