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Gonzalo Bernardos on Eliminating Holidays as the Government Has Done in France: "Companies Would Do Better"
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François Bayrou's proposal to abolish certain public holidays, including on 8 May, as part of a €43.8 billion savings plan, arouses a strong reaction in Orléans. The idea of touching this symbolic date, marking the end of the Second World War, raises a raise of shields in the Johannic city, reports Le JDD this Saturday, 19 July 2025.In a letter addressed this Friday, 18 July to the Prime Minister, former mayors Jean-Pierre Sueur and Olivier Carr…
These two paths which inflamed the public debate after Bayrou's budget announcements would in no way solve the real problem, which is the employment rate of young people and that of older people.
TRIBUNE. The expert on secularism reacts, in a forum at the "World", to François Bayrou's proposal to delete two holidays, and pleads for a postponement of the Republic's calendar.
The budgeted adjustment plan presented by the French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou, contemplates such controversial measures as the freezing of pensions, the reduction of public employees and the elimination of two public holidays, pointing out "as an example" that on Easter Monday and May 8 they lose their status as national holidays.The justification is that this will contribute several billion to the state budget.How does this measure econo…
Gabriel Attal showed himself reserved in the face of François Bayrou's proposal to make the French work two holidays without paying them more. The debate within the "common circle" announced tense.
Two former mayors of Orléans and the current edile, Serge Grouard, sent a letter to François Bayrou in protest against the potential suppression of the 8-May holiday. A date that marks the victory against Nazism and represents another symbol for the city: the feasts of Joan of Arc.
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