The Economist is impatient with what they regard as the slow pace of Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to sell off state assets

The Economist is getting impatient with what they regard as the slow pace of Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to sell off state assets, and is demanding action. “Privatizing airports only goes so far. The question is what comes next. Mr. Macron's government will soon, probably after the summer, announce its plan for ADP and say which other stakes are to be sold off. A smaller role for the state in business is long overdue,” says the publication. “The state-owned sector in France employs nearly 800,000 people, the most of all the countries surveyed by the Cour des Comptes. The number of firms in which the state has a majority stake has been rising since around 2006.” The Economist Group is owned by Cadbury, Rothschild, Schroder, Agnelli and other interests.