Whatever it costs. As of March 12, the President of the Republic hammered out this formula, which has since been taken up by all government ministers. Things are therefore clear: on the financial side, the coronavirus crisis will be treated "whatever the cost" . Because human life is priceless. Because it is vital to support businesses in the country, in order to avoid as much as possible a collapse of the French economy when the containment ends.
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No one, and it is fortunate, does not dispute this watchword: in such an ordeal, the stewardship must follow, to paraphrase General de Gaulle, and it is the honor of our society to place the health of citizens above any financial contingency. National unity is also required in the budgetary treatment of the epidemic, since it is unanimously that the deputies voted a corrective law providing for 45 billion additional expenses.
We already know that the situation will be difficult, because we will have to deal simultaneously with the increase in spending linked to the financing of the crisis and a drop in government revenuesWhether health or economic, this general mobilization
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