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Public debt: François Bayrou's criticisms against previous generations

The head of government denounces a financial burden imposed on young people to repay debts accumulated in the past.

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The head of government François Bayrou strongly criticized the management of the public debt, affirming that young people are unfairly forced to repay the financial facilities consumed by previous generations.

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The Fitch rating agency is due to assess France's sovereign debt rating this Friday.

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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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