The overall figures do want to say anything

The 2007 budget lower taxes and greenhouse spending: would you say that it is courageous In General, do you think used electorally

Yes, it is undeniable, this budget is a good budget because he is not casting the margins of manoeuvre of the next majority. This is a serious budget, but a transitional budget. It is clear that the new majority elected next year may want to make a collective budget to implement rapidly the project it will be defended during the campaign.

The PS said the contrary, in holding that the tax cuts he will remove any room for manoeuvre.

What do you want that I tell you! The left does not want to understand to lower taxes, contribute to the economic dynamism.

The Government has arrested a multiannual programme of fiscal consolidation, with written goals. Do you feel bound by such commitments

It is that there is such objectives, even if I find that it could do more in the past. That said, any new majority wants, and it is legitimate, to implement the project on which the President will be elected.

Thierry Breton sells its budget as a "budget for purchasing power." It do robbing you not a major theme of your campaign for 2007

Is a budget for the purchasing power I am not so sure, and, in any case, that we in no way impedes to a theme of our campaign. There is this strong coup de pouce to the premium for employment (EPP), that is, and at the same time I think that it will take to correct the perverse effects of this premium. So ultimately we end up unload companies of their responsibilities on wages.

The Government was right to allocate tax surpluses to the debt

It is indisputable.

Do you agree with the learned economic assumptions The PS finds them very optimistic.

The exercise is always very difficult and uncertain. Say that a little bit of optimism may be necessary for action.

Overall, you are quite measured. Much more than in previous years.

There are no miracles, but I think that it could not do. The only thing I regret is that it could do much more for the reduction of public spending.

Is there not an ambiguity: in his speech of June Agen, Nicolas Sarkozy appeared to say that lower deficits and the debt should not be erected in priority

There was much talk around the speech of Agen, but by the distorting. That said Nicolas Sarkozy, is that was not to add difficulty to the difficulties and economic downturn and rising unemployment it could do it all at the same time. And will this not prevent other types of action, such as privatization, the streamlining of the administrative structure, etc.

Another contradiction: in the spring, some sarkozystes felt that 15,000 officials decline was too big and might deteriorate the social climate within a few months of the presidential.

This workforce is sensitive. The overall figures do want to say anything. Must watch sector by sector where the needs are and where are the surplus. What I see, is that it remains enormous savings of structures in the public apparatus, certain services could be seriously relieved and others need to be strengthened.

Why then Nicolas Sarkozy hesitate to take this abuse hunting theme in the administration Is it because it is not very electorally paying

Think again. When he says that he will be only fifteen Ministers, it is because he wants to redefine the boundaries of departments, enter it in an organic act to stabilize and rationalize. This will be the start of a broad movement of restructuring.

The companies have enough désarçonnées by certain positions of Nicolas Sarkozy (the speech of Agen) or by its ability to be in a situation of crisis, tempted by the retreat (on PBS)...

Nicolas Sarkozy may simply be the spokesman for the companies and relay their liberal message. It is that it brings together, to take into account the complexities of French society. That said, the economic program of the UMP to assert more of seven months of upcoming campaign and will surely gain in understanding.