Coronavirus: Anne Hidalgo and François Hollande call for aid of 500 euros for young people (Archives) -

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Former President François Hollande and the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo called separately on Thursday for the establishment of aid of 500 euros per month for young people hit hard by the coronavirus health crisis.

“In this exceptional period, we need an exceptional income for young people under 25, estimated the former socialist president during a visit to a solidarity grocery store for students in Paris.

This income must be granted for a limited time, until the end of the crisis, probably for the year 2021, at a level which must remain compatible with the financial requirements, of the order of 500 euros ”per month.

A "survival aid" for Hidalgo

"We have a problem with young people, two-thirds of whom are experiencing financial and psychological difficulties, so we have to pay a youth solidarity income for the next eight months," said François Hollande.

In a separate speech, the socialist mayor of Paris went in the same direction by calling for the establishment of “survival aid” of 500 euros per month for each young person.

"This emergency aid will be at least necessary, essential for the next three years and it must be addressed to all young people", without taking into account the level of resources of parents, insisted Anne Hidalgo in an interview with Brut .

Calls have been multiplying for several weeks in favor of support measures for young people facing growing difficulties in terms of training or integration into a depressed labor market and where companies are uncertain about their future.

Hollande welcomes some of Macron's decisions

Towards youth, "what Emmanuel Macron is doing is going in the right direction: the fact that young people can return to university, that meals can be served to them, that there is support through the" guarantee young people "which will be enlarged," said François Hollande.

An opinion far from being shared by Anne Hidalgo who lambasted the “totally bureaucratic devices” of the presidential party, which launched the idea of ​​a zero-interest loan of 100,000 euros for 18-25 year olds.

“Frankly start his life by being forced to repay a loan….

whereas here the urgency is to have enough to eat, to find shelter and the strength to be able to then think about his life while studying or going on the job market ”, she declared.

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