"Not all French people have children, but all French people have two parents and four grandparents"
, pleaded Michèle Delaunay, Minister for the Elderly in the Ayrault government, to obtain funding for a law on loss. autonomy.
In vain.
“Youth is the priority of my five-year term
,” retorted François Hollande to him.
The anecdote says a lot about the procrastination of successive governments on the thorny issue of dependency care.
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