Prime Minister François Bayrou put a cat between pigeons.
His proposal, from Tuesday, on Monday and May 8, his proposal triggered the crying of hog for the left and populists.
In a country with a powerful tradition of workers protests, it was never easy to suddenly get rid of a two -day holiday.
In essence, men and women will work two more days a year to avoid increasing salaries. The benefit of productivity will help the state to constantly attract deep debt holes.
The French are actually very attached to them vacation.
The moon in May is waiting for joy every year because it heralds spring. It is also due to the continuation of long weekends that occurs regularly.
On May 1 (Workers’ Day), May 8, and the Second World War and fall on Tuesday or Thursday, the weekend is automatically taken on Monday and Friday.
There are also ascensions (always Thursday) and Easter Monday and Monday (or Pentecost).
If the church calendar is obliged, the initial Easter is combined with May 1-8 Font Or Bridge-a four-day weekend over Monday or Friday, but a true weekend for 5-6 days. viaduct (viaduct).
November is another festival festival, providing the first saints of the month and the 11th slogan of autumn blues. And in addition, there is a famous “RTT” work, and many are paid for more than 35 hours of legal work a week.
But before we fall into humorous self -satisfaction for “unbelievably lazy France and God given by God,” we must keep in mind some different considerations.
firstIt’s far from popular images, but France actually less nationwide than the European average.
There are 11 in France: Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
Slovakia has 15, England, Wales and the Netherlands, and the least eight.
There are 10 in Ireland and Denmark.
secondAccording to the British Statistics Office, the French productivity (output per worker) is 18% higher than the UK, so the glory of the entire channel is wrong.
thirdThis is not the first time that France has proposed to AX National Holidays in recent years. It happened before and worked.
In 2003, President Jacques Chirac’s conservative government wanted to do a radical work after 15,000 people died after the fatal heat wave of the summer.
So, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin Solidarity. People will work instead of taking a day off, and the money gained by the employer will be paid to the government for the fund to help the elderly and the disability.
There was a cry, and after a few years, the change was sprinkled with water, and now the day of solidarity is voluntary. It is all very confused, and no one understands how it functions, but on Monday, not Monday, it produces 3 billion euros (£ 3.5 billion) every year.
Another precedent returns to the 1950s and Charles de Gaulle.
In 1959, appointed as a newly appointed president, he won the European vacation on May 8 and said the state could not afford it. It was restored in 1981 by socialist François Mitterrand.
Bayrou scratches two holidays from bold bidding to reduce debt.
So on Tuesday, Green was very easy to repeat Benjamin Haddad again when Bayrou accused Bayrou that he had tried to clean the eradication of Naziism from collective memory.
None of these means that Bayrou is more likely to make his proposal realized.
The truth is that the prime minister is almost in the position of total erectile dysfunction. Congress operates a government without a large number of governments, which can fall in one minute if the opposition party decides.
But in a strange way, this without this power was free to tell Bayrou what he thought.
If his budget proposal is unlikely to be voted through the General Assembly -and the opportunity is virtually zero -he may give France a truth that is not threatened by France.
He said the economic situation was serious.
Every moment, France has a debt of 5,000 euros.
Today it is in € 3.3TN. In this situation, Bayrou thinks we should rethink the way we live. And work.
