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, Michel Houellebecq imagines the end of Emmanuel Macron's second term in 2027.
"France had again become the fifth world power (...), its deficit now represented less than 1% of GDP and it was gradually reducing its debt
" , then projected the writer.
The only downside in the novel is the permanence of endemic unemployment.
Houellebecq's visionary gifts should for once be lacking.
As much as the employment prospects seem well oriented for Macron's second five-year term despite economic uncertainties, public finances are also worrying.
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Even the President remained very cautious on the subject: during the campaign, he modestly contented himself with resuming the trajectory traced in the autumn in the last multiannual programming law for public finances with a return to below a deficit of 3% in 2027 and an ebb of debt from 2026, obtained thanks to savings that are also subject to caution...
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