It's cracking.
This is the observation of
François-Xavier Ménage
in his book of the same name released by Robert Laffont on September 14.
Housing, health, education... The TF1 reporter investigated this difficult France where you have to get by in the face of everyday difficulties.
In a social action center in a small town, one of the managers reveals that she is at the point of counting sheets of toilet paper.
“
With her colleagues, she discusses the price of supermarket foods and it’s not to the decimal point, it’s two figures after the decimal point
,” explains the journalist on the “Buzz TV” set.
It caught my attention because it speaks to a part of the population
,” he confides again.
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“
A third of those who go to the supermarket are forced to make sacrifices
,” he noted during his various reports for the front page newspapers.
“
I am not a geographer but what strikes me is that we first have difficulty understanding what our neighbors are going through, I am thinking of those on the other side of the block.
And therefore the commune next door, departments.
The fight we journalists must wage is to better describe this.
It is not always obvious.
We have plenty of reasons to fail but we have to do it,”
encourages the former presenter of “Capital” on M6.
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Before listing the main places where “things are failing”: “
It’s at all levels: mayors who have so many standards that they can no longer decide, or act.
A school principal tells us she is forced to spend her personal money to provide materials for students, the director of a hospital in eastern France constrained by all the standards that come across his desk.
By taking this photo of today's France, we say to ourselves that changes must be made.
But for 4 or 5 presidents we have been promised the simplification of administrative rules except that, as
Jean-Pierre Jouyet (former secretary general of the Élysée, Editor's note) said
, they don't care and don't do it
. , summarizes François-Xavier Ménage.
“I will not give good and bad points to Emmanuel Macron”
François-Xavier Ménage
What about Emmanuel Macron's announcements on Tuesday during his press conference at the Élysée?
Was the field reporter satisfied with it?
“
There are a lot of people from the civil service who tell us: “what is our framework?
How far are we asked to go in a certain direction?
And how will I be useful?”
I am not a political commentator, I will not give good and bad points to Emmanuel Macron but these two questions raised in the book on the framework deserve our attention
.