Invited Monday morning in Europe, Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, estimated that the strategy of "whatever the cost" had made it possible to practically halve the estimates of the INSEE as to the destruction of jobs in 2020.

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While INSEE anticipated the destruction of nearly 600,000 jobs in France in 2020, as a result of the restrictions put in place to deal with the health crisis triggered by Covid-19, finally, nearly 360,000 jobs were destroyed. "It is first of all due to 'whatever it costs', but it is above all due to the extraordinary resilience of the French economy", greeted Monday, at the microphone of Europe Matin, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire. "Whatever the cost" was particularly effective in 2020 ", particularly welcomed the tenant of Bercy.