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Nicolas Baverez - François Lenglet: who will foot the bill for the crisis?

2020-10-27T19:03:15.612Z


INTERVIEW - While France is preparing to put in place new containment measures to face the health crisis, the economic and social consequences of the latter are expected to be of rare violence.


Who will foot the bill?

On this point, François Lenglet, whose new essay,

whatever costs!

(Albin Michel), has just been published, and Nicolas Baverez, columnist for

Le Figaro

, agree: the middle and working classes will be the first victims of hyperdebt, which will either have to be repaid or canceled in some way or 'another.

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But within the European Union, is it certain that Germany will ultimately agree to pay for its neighbors?

Anyway, with regard to France, an exit from the euro would paradoxically be synonymous with a return to the salutary reality, argues François Lenglet.

Nicolas Baverez believes, on the contrary, that the single currency and the strengthening of the European Union remain the best options to ward off our collective decline and face the new international threats that are emerging.

LE FIGARO.

- François Lenglet, in your new book called

whatever costs !,

you ask the question:

"Who will really pay?"

So,

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Source: lefigaro

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