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Covid: is France the country in Europe that has invested the most in the face of the crisis?

2020-10-20T16:48:50.724Z


THE VERIFICATION - Emmanuel Macron mentioned the figure of 460 billion investment since the start of the epidemic. Is it correct? And should we rejoice in such sums?


THE QUESTION.

The Covid-19 pandemic, by its very universality, naturally lends itself to international comparisons, both in terms of health and its economic impact.

The figures are certainly always subject to caution, but for the countries of the European Union whose level of development is fairly close and which share common rules of statistical ethics, it is legitimate to compare oneself with others, to do

benchmarking.

»In good French.

Asked on October 14 on television about the fact that the "

most disadvantaged

" people were the most affected by the virus, from the double point of view of health and employment, the President of the Republic had this answer

: “This is also why I assume the strength of the economic response that we have had.

The report - of the Pittet mission which had been submitted the day before (Editor's note) - also says it very clearly, we are undoubtedly the country in Europe which has been the strongest on this subject, which has the most

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Source: lefigaro

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