Gauthier Delomez 12:16 p.m., February 19, 2024
While Emmanuel Macron announced a payment of three billion euros to Ukraine on Friday, Bruno Le Maire indicated on Sunday evening that France had to make 10 billion euros in savings. “A French paradox” for Agnès Verdier-Molinié, guest on the show “Pascal Praud et vous”, every day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Listen to the excerpt again. You can react at 01.80.20.39.21.
Firstly, on Friday evening, President Emmanuel Macron announced alongside his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, a payment of three billion euros to Ukraine. Secondly, on Sunday evening, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire declared that the State had to find 10 billion euros in savings. “It’s totally contradictory,” comments Agnès Verdier-Molinié, director of the Ifrap foundation, in the show
Pascal Praud et vous
. “Every day, there are new spending announcements, and on the other hand, we have to make savings. That’s the whole French paradox,” she said on Europe 1.