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If a public holiday has to be abolished, it will not be this one assures Barnier

Bad pick – On Inter, Jean-François Copé considered removing the November 11 public holiday, the Prime Minister gave him a clear response…

The Prime Minister decided: We are not touching November 11. For several days and the great race for savings launched by the Barnier government, the question of a second day of solidarity has been raised by many parliamentarians.

In short, which public holiday could be removed, out of the eleven on our calendar? Like Pentecost Monday, the first day of solidarity established in 2004, a new day would see employees working without additional pay.

Michel Barnier puts Jean-François Copé back on his land

An idea supported by the Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand and by that of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, at the end of October. On this Monday, November 11, Jean-François Copé, mayor of , spoke on this subject to our colleagues at France Inter to propose this day of commemoration. “There is never a good holiday to eliminate, there is never a good savings. We do not need a public holiday to commemorate November 11, otherwise that would mean that we have 65 million French people at the foot of the war memorials,” explained the former MP before adding, that There are “a thousand ways to commemorate without not working”.

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