The day after French President Emmanuel Macron said that, in the year 2027 alone, he would blow another roughly €60 billion on weapons for some fantasy war with Russia that France isn’t even in, the French prime minister proposed axing some statutory holidays in an effort to balance the books. So here he is, Prime Minister Bayrou, waxing all poetic about national sacrifice, while at the same time proposing to axe the Easter Monday state holiday in April, and the one that falls on France’s WWII Victory Day on May 8: “I think this is the last station before the cliff and the crushing by the debt. Now, it seems that defending them is a revolutionary act against technocrats treating democracy like an inconvenience when it’s time to “make tough decisions.” It rips the mask off the French state’s mantra of “liberté, égalité, fraternité” and makes inequality glaring, calling their bluff on their “we’re all in this together” narrative.
Author: RT
Published at: 2025-07-19 19:22:36
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