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CHRONIC. A lot of money for too mediocre results. Incredible: Berger and Macron would agree! Their shared observation, however, does not lead to much.
By Michael Richard
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EFinally, they agree, at least on one point. We despaired. We couldn’t believe that Emmanuel Macron and Laurent Berger missed each other so much. We said to ourselves that their estrangement, divergence, misunderstanding were a real mess and that Macron’s mandates were damaged. We saw the trials that the two men were doing, one for betrayal of the reformist tradition of the CFDT, the other for contempt for social dialogue. Pension reform was their battlefield when it could have been their joint work.
And then here is a column published by The world (May 17) by six economic, association and intellectual leaders, including Laurent Berger. Title: “Public policies have lost the sense of their usefulness”. Or how “Governors must rebuild a…