It is a tsunami that sweeps everything in its path. The Covid-19 epidemic, which has fallen like lightning across the planet, is causing an economic crisis like we have seen in a century. No country in the world will emerge unscathed. For each of them, the recovery promises to be long, painful, costly. But at the time of the first accounts, it appears that France will pay a particularly heavy price to this calamity. Wherever they come from, the most serious forecasts promise us a more severe recession than elsewhere, more massive unemployment, more degraded public accounts.
These gloomy prospects owe little to chance, much to these particularisms which gnaw at our country. Bumped by months of social tension - more than a year of "yellow vests" and two giant strikes in public transport - we limped into the crisis. We also entered it very poor, guilty of our short-sightedness. In lack of masks,
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