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The French social model, a shock absorber in times of crisis

2020-04-07T17:36:59.346Z


DECRYPTION - Emmanuel Macron had spared his critics against a social model deemed expensive and ineffective. But that was before the coronavirus crisis.


Eleven years after the financial crisis that swept the planet, the world is rediscovering the benefits of the French social model which makes it possible to absorb the most violent economic shocks. And yet what has not been heard in times of growth - in peace, to use the warrior language of today - on the most generous unemployment insurance system in Europe, the PAYG pension system expensive which costs 4 points of GDP more than across the Rhine, the plethoric tricolor public service more prompt than another to go on strike at the slightest problem ...

Emmanuel Macron first, had not spared his critics against a social model deemed expensive and ineffective. "Every day, many of our fellow citizens note that universality is riddled with exceptions, disparities, dead ends, that the situations or the rights promised are not real rights ," he criticized in June 2018. We live in a country where the republican promise is often disappointed, because we have

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Source: lefigaro

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