RAS L’PLF . The boss of the bosses is on the front page of Les Echos this morning, while the draft finance bill (revenue part) arrives in the chamber today. And without much surprise, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux is not in phase with the spirit of the text. “This budget represents a miss opportunity to ruce spending,” he says. “It is extremely regrettable not to take advantage of 6% growth to change our budget model. (…) The budgetary ‘at the same time’, which combines simultaneous increases in operating and investment spending, is not a good idea.”

whose term ends this week, express her “surprise” and “disappointment” at not having been reappoint as head of the Competition Authority, in an interview with the Financial Times publish this weekend . She believes in particular that it is “not necessarily a good thing to change captain in the middle of such an important and difficult case” as the merger between TF1 and M6, a very political industrial project that, as Playbook wrote to you last week , did not really excite her. However, she assures that “there is no possibility that the change of president will change the outcome” — but should we see this as wishful thinking, when the college of the authority sometimes goes against the recommendations of the investigating services? For those who are curious, the one who will return to the Council of State is the guest of BFM Business, this morning at 8:15.

BLM AND APR THE NUC Bruno Le Maire

and Agnès Pannier-Runacher sign this morning with the ministers of nine European countries — mainly from Central and Eastern Europe — a platform in favor of nuclear energy in Le Figaro . “We ne nuclear email list energy to win the climate battle,” they write, arguing for this energy to be includ in the European “taxonomy” that is us to direct funds to projects classifi as sustainable. Note, however, the absence of the Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili among the signatories. Germany, which has been rucing its share of nuclear power since 2011, is unsurprisingly not represent.

INTERNATIONALLY

HOUSE OF KURZ  The house of card

has collaps for Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian how to create bottom-of-funnel content? chancellor, who resign Saturday night. “I am resigning to prevent chaos,” said the man who has been under investigation bookyourlist for months on suspicion of corruption, the details of which were only made public last Wnesday, hastening his downfall. He is suspect by investigators of having paid bribes to journalists and pollsters with public money.

But it’s not all over for Kurz, according to my colleague Matthew Karnitschnig. The 35-year-old chancellor preferr not to wait for the parliamentary motion of no confidence, which could have brought to power a coalition of four parties l by the Social Democrats and including the far right. Kurz remains the president of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and will still sit in parliament, where he will take over as chairman of the group. Will he continue to pull the strings of Austrian politics? Matt’s answers, here (in English) .