“We don’t really know what will happen after the election. We don’t know who will be elected. We don’t know on which program, because nobody has enough time to prepare a program,” the fintech lobbyist said.

The people POLITICO spoke with all expected the CMU project to take a major hit if either the far right or far left enter Matignon.

“It’s always the French who propose ideas [on EU finance policy],” the bank staffer said. “Everybody anticipates that with [a far-right or far-left] government, there will be less proposals. And in this particular context where we have…