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Jérôme Fourquet and Pierre Vermeren: “How far will the great collapse of France go?”

2023-03-10T05:11:52.114Z


BIG INTERVIEW - Against a backdrop of rejection of pension reform, mass unemployment and the disintegration of public services, France is slowly sinking and the state is failing to keep the nation afloat, analyze the pollster and political scientist and the historian.


Le Figaro.

- Pierre Vermeren, how do you explain the hostility of the majority of French people to the

pension reform

?

Does this come from the fact that it is part of a context of

"great downgrading"

?

Pierre VERMEREN.

-

Emmanuel Macron said recently that it was normal to work more to finance the system, because we live longer, there are fewer workers, etc.

We have been hearing this discourse for thirty years.

But the French see that there is a very large number of compatriots who do not work.

According to official statistics, there are three million unemployed in France, but by adding the part-times suffered, there are more like five to six.

There are also three million young people who are neither employees, nor students, nor on internship, therefore missing from the radar.

And a few million able-bodied people who do not work, sometimes for very legitimate reasons, such as mothers.

In total, that's about ten million...

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Source: lefigaro

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