Would Thomas More smile in front of the political debates of France in crisis?
Five hundred years after the publication of his book
Utopia
, in which the English humanist imagined an island where everyone would see their basic needs met without depending on their work, the "universal income" returned to agitate the political class on Thursday, at the National Assembly.
An income paid to all "whatever happens", at the time of "whatever it costs" Macronist: about fifty deputies from the right, from the left and from La République en Marche (LREM) defend in various forms this response to the economic and social crisis, via a motion for a resolution from Agir, a center-right party allied to the majority.
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