Emmanuel Macron will deliver his traditional New Year’s Eve message to France next week, an event that one imagines is testing the skills of his speech writers. What to say after a year of unmitigated disaster? What is there for the French to look forward to 2025 other than more uncertainty, more insecurity and more economic woe?
On Friday, the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) announced that France’s public debt has risen again.
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