The hypothesis of a tax on bank profits continues to confirm itself as a bone of contention between the parties of the center-right majority. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to rake in new resources in this way to finance the 2025 Budget Law and at the same time plug the Italian scourge of public debt. But ally Forza Italia is not of the same opinion, and  the issue is also on the table in France. New Prime Minister Michel Barnier has made it clear that his newly formed government could raise taxes on large corporations and the wealthiest to stem the growing deficit problem and prevent bond markets from abandoning OATs, French government bonds. "Our country is in a very serious condition - with 3 trillion euros of debt and 50 billion euros of interest to pay every year," Barnier said, when asked by TV channel France 2. All this, in the midst of the protests that have erupted in the country over an executive that many citizens say is not an expression of the outcome of the late June-early July elections. An accusation that cannot be addressed to Giorgia Meloni.