It is a budget placed under the weight of public deficits that Michel Barnier, the French Prime Minister, presented this week. Rigor or austerity budget? The debate is on. But we will rather focus on the French relationship with the debt which today exceeds 118% of GDP. That is to say that the French public debt is greater than all the wealth produced by France in one year. To talk about it, our guest, Laure Quénnouëlle-Corre, economic historian, research director at the CNRS.
Laure Quénnouëlle-Corre: “There is a real acclimatization to public spending in France”
