Fuel Prices: "Taxes Don't Prevent Me From sleeping..." The Minister of Economy's Little Sentence Provokes an Outcry in the Assembly
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The Minister of Economy had provoked the anger of the RN by telling the Assembly that fuel taxes did not prevent him from sleeping.
"It is an unfortunate expression that I sincerely regret having spoken," said the Minister of Economy.
When questioned at the National Assembly on 28 October 2026 on the rise in the price of petrol, the Minister of Economy Roland Lescure aroused a heated controversy by saying that fuel taxes do not lead to the...
While fuel taxation is still at the heart of the debates on the budget in the National Assembly, the Minister of Economy made a remarkable and controversial exit before the MPs, finding that taxes "do not prevent sleep." The RN's response did not wait.
Questioned at the National Assembly on 28 October by Éric Coquerel on the price of fuels, the Minister of Economy Roland Lescure acknowledged that France taxes more than its neighbours, before adding in an acrobatic French: "I know that it prevents others from sleeping, but I do not prevent them from sleeping", [...] The article Fuel taxes: the state collects more than one euro per litre, but the minister sleeps well, it is the essential appeare…
40 million motorists want the dismissal of Roland Lescure (Economy), because of one of his statements on the fuel crisis...
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