Hammered three times by the President of the Republic in his address to the nation of March 12, the "whatever the cost" was a real rhetorical find.
The formula, repeated
ad nauseam
by ministers and commentators amazed by this powerful pentameter, aimed at three priorities:
"Save lives"
,
"Protect our employees and our companies", "Support for activity, then recovery"
according to the terms of the Élysée.
Extensive program.
Seven months later, it is possible to put numbers in front of words.
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France's GDP, its annual production of wealth, will have contracted by 10% in volume this year, a loss of 202.7 billion euros in value, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.
Such a production recession should have impoverished the French by as much.
However, it is not the case.
Still according to Bercy,
“the
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