Demography: levers to try to stop the fall. Childcare, women's employment, housing...
these are the main drivers of the birth rate. ‘France, beyond the graves, seeks the cradles’ would not have been out of place in Emmanuel Macron's speech on ‘demographic rearmament’ in January. In January, the President of the Republic returned to the martial rhetoric applied to family policy since the end of the 19th century. His remarks may also refer to General de Gaulle's natalist speech in 1945.