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Nicolas Baverez: "France sick of its state"

2020-11-08T21:29:54.279Z


CHRONICLE - By expanding and confusing policies and spending, the state has lost its legitimacy and effectiveness.


France is now facing a combination of crises unprecedented since the 1930s. As in the interwar years, it has lost control.

This time not because of the political instability born of parliamentarism but because of the drift of a State which multiplies the risks it is supposed to reinsure.

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Reconfinement and curfew mark the state's bankruptcy in the face of Covid-19.

With more than 40,000 dead, France remains unable to control the epidemic for lack of effective implementation of the only effective strategy, "test, trace, isolate, cure".

Rapid and grouped tests, digital tools, controlled isolation and resuscitation beds continue to be lacking, leaving no other choice but the hellish yoyo of opening and closing the economy and society on the waves. virus.

Reconfinement is the final blow to our economy.

The recession will exceed 11% of GDP in 2020 and limit its rebound in 2021 to 5% against 8% forecast

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Source: lefigaro

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