The government on Tuesday worsened its recession forecast for France in 2020, with a drop in GDP that could reach -11%. The economist Jean-Hervé Lorenzi estimated on Europe 1 that this economic crisis will result in "two shocks", one on unemployment and another "on the generation of young people". 

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The government expects a historic recession in 2020. The government has further worsened its forecasts for this year, now with a drop in GDP (gross domestic product) which could reach -11%, unheard of since the end of the Second World War. For economist Hervé Lorenzi, this economic crisis will result in "two shocks". "A shock to unemployment first. And a shock to the generation of young people," worried the president of the circle of economists, Tuesday noon on Europe 1.