Who would have bet, when the pandemic broke out in March 2020, that Emmanuel Macron would be on track to meet his employment commitments today?
Namely reaching the 7% unemployment rate in 2022 and aiming for full employment three years later.
Honestly, not many people, including even the first circle of the President of the Republic's unconditional supporters.
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However, the facts seem, at first glance, to prove him right.
Unemployment?
It fell back to 8% of the working population at the end of the second quarter, a few tenths from its low of 7.2% reached before the crisis.
And it is more than likely that it would have plunged below the 7% mark, a level that France has not reached since the end of 1981, without the Covid-19.
The job?
It is now almost 200,000 above the highest recorded at the end of 2019. And it is also a safe bet that the ceiling of 20 million assets in the private sector, which has never been exceeded, would have been broken if the GDP did not have
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