It is not only on pensions that Emmanuel Macron is involved with a precision that amazes, and sometimes destabilizes, his ministers.
Every six weeks, the Head of State chairs an interministerial meeting devoted to universal national service.
If pensions are a test of its ability to carry out an unpopular reform, the UNS is the barometer of its desire to carry out major structuring projects.
Three decades after the abolition of military service by Jacques Chirac, Emmanuel Macron wants to be the president who will have established this new kind of citizen service.
Promised during the 2017 campaign, it was set up on an experimental basis and on a voluntary basis at the start of the 2019 school year. For his second five-year term, the Head of State wants to make a big change by moving to its generalization.
The SNU would therefore become universal, in the sense that it would concern an entire age group, but also in the sense that, unlike the military service of yesteryear, it would enlist boys...
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