10,000 additional factories, 500,000 industrial jobs, 3,000 euros median income: Gabriel Attal's lunar economic promises

Gabriel Attal promises us the moon, and this isn't just a figure of speech. The secretary general of Renaissance, who is said to have strong presidential ambitions, has just published his party's new economic program.

There's a bit of everything there, from the creation of 10,000 factories to raising the median wage (half of workers earn less, the other half earn more), to the establishment of "the world's first lunar base with a permanent presence from 2040" . Just that!

Renaissance's brains have produced an 82-page document, a potpourri of all Macron's obsessions: the unraveling of the social model (under the pretext of modernity), the celebration of entrepreneurship in all its forms, and a taste for technosolutionism. It's almost as if the program was born from a romance between a senior civil servant at Bercy and a...