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VSEvery year for forty-three years, from 1974 to 2017, all the Presidents of the Republic have tried, in their speeches of good wishes, to ward off the “scourge” of unemployment. Today, this French evil is finally beginning to ebb. Did the French notice it? In any case, household confidence is at its lowest since 1972.
1978 – Valery Giscard d’Estaing
“Unemployment spared the richest countries. For four years, all are affected. »
Unemployment rate
* 4.6%
Household confidence ** 115
1991 – Francois Mitterrand
” [Tout faire] so that the gangrene of unemployment finally recedes. »
Unemployment rate 8.1%
Household confidence 101
2005 – Jacques Chirac
“Unemployment: it is a scourge, the source of so many difficulties, of…
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