
Prime Minister François Bayrou denounced Thursday the fact that young people are “reduced to slavery” to repay the debt accumulated by previous generations, during an intervention on intergenerational economic difficulties in France.
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Young people are “reduced to slavery” to repay the debt decided by “previous generations”, criticizes François Bayrou
“That a generation does not think of the next generation, that it imposes on them, without telling them, the burden of having to pay for decades, for the facilities that we have encountered today, this is not normal,” the head of government said this Thursday.
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