Emmanuel Macron expressed Thursday, during an impromptu exchange with young people in Paris, his opposition to a universal income for students even if he recognizes that there are “too many students in precariousness”.
There is no country that helps students more than France on a social level but I am not in favor of what people say, at 18, we have the right to a universal income without obligation, affirmed the president of the Republic during this exchange, which an AFP journalist witnessed.
I believe in qualifying studies to get a job and, behind that, I believe in work. And one of the problems we have in our country today is that we also have a whole generation who had an RSA (active solidarity income, intended for people without resources, Editor’s note) and who are still prevented from going to work or who has become unaccustomed to going to work, he justified.
I am not for an unconditional universal income
I am in favor of improving the system. But I am not for an unconditional universal income, he added, saying he was in favor of greater control over attendance at exams and success in exams.
Because today we distribute a lot of scholarships also to students who do not go there (for exams, Editor’s note). In the queues for food aid, we also have a lot of foreign students, he argued.
But, he admitted, there are still too many students who are in precarious circumstances, especially in big cities where housing is expensive.
Develop studies in cities where it is less expensive
He wanted us to help develop studies in cities where it is less expensive. Two, that we finally have the answer – this is where we are not good – on student housing. We need to bring down the price of student housing. Three, that we have student jobs, when necessary, adapted to studies.
Fourteen university presidents called in September in a column published by Le Monde for the creation of a study allowance for all students, in order to curb poverty, facilitate the development of young people’s autonomy and their access to education. higher education.
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