THE QUESTION. Receiving a few journalists from the regional daily press last week (the PQR as it is called), Emmanuel Macron did not go there by all means. “We must collectively break away from what is the French disease: the preference for unemployment. The classic French model is to accept massive social plans, then to have a very generous system that compensates them. Basically, a model which means that we have never solved the problem of mass unemployment , ” explained to our colleagues the Head of State, whose remarks we have reproduced here published by Ouest-France .
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It is certainly not the first time that the President of the Republic has criticized the French social protection system with the idea that it secretes underemployment as viper its venom. But while the government officially plans to cut 800,000 jobs in France, the unemployment rate which had fallen to 8.4% of the workforce in 2019
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