“Neither censorship nor repeal, unless you want to plunge France into chaos”

In basketball, we call this “money time”, this moment at the end of the game when everything is at stake, defeat or victory. History does not tell if Michel Barnier likes parquet floors as much as hiking in his Alps, but he knows that he is playing big in the week to come. From Monday, he will receive the leaders of the opposition parties to try to convince them not to vote for censure in the event of 49.3 to adopt the State and Social Security budgets.

At what price? This is the whole question as our Prime Minister multiplies the concessions. Abandoning a few billion additional savings means more debt, a budget for nothing. Censorship? It's no more budget at all, the leap into the unknown. Then, as if that wasn't enough, there is the threat of Black Thursday on pensions. If the RN joins the left, our deputies will have taken a first step towards the repeal of the retirement reform at 64 years old. They…