2023-05-26 05:35:37
Emmanuel Macron is looking for sensors. two weeks later to have reconnected with economists who had supported him in his conquest of powerthe Head of State hosted Tuesday, May 23, according to information from the Monde, a “lunch of sociologists”, at the Elysée. That day, four researchers took their places in the ambassadors’ lounge, where the Council of Ministers usually meets: Jean Viard, CNRS research director at Cevipof, a sociologist close to Emmanuel Macron; Philippe Moati, professor of economics and co-founder of the Observatory of Society and Consumption, who worked on “yellow vests”; Jérôme Fourquet, director of the opinion department at IFOP, and journalist Jean-Laurent Cassely, co-authors of France before our eyes: economy, landscapes, new ways of life (Threshold, 2021). A confidential exchange, had demanded the Elysée of the participants, summoned to leave their telephones at the entrance. “It was not intended to be the subject of a photo in Paris Match… nor of an article in The world »is astonished Mr. Cassely.
In front of each plate, a card details the menu: “Society, consumption, lifestyles”. “Tell me about the transformations of society”, opens the head of state who is striving to win back public opinion, after having reformed pensions by robbing the country. Better late than never, think these guests anxious to depict “the France of Amazon and roundabouts”according to one of them. “People want to regain power over timebegins Jean Viard. It is not the amount of work that is the problem, but the lack of freedom of choice. » Emmanuel Macron and Alexis Kohler take note. If the French are reluctant to work longer, it would be because of a sense of dulled effort or a loss of civic-mindedness, we insist in Macronie.
“Time belonged to God, then it belonged to work. Today it is up to the individual”positive Jean Viard, who adds that in the country of paid holidays and 35 hours, the political power must “starting from this culture rather than circumventing it and wanting to model German industrial culture”. “The French aspire to regain control over their lives”abounds Jérôme Fourquet, in reference to the slogans in the demonstrations against retirement at 64: “He robs us of two years of life. » While telework aggravates social and territorial fractures, the author of The French Archipelago suggests to Emmanuel Macron to invent a compensation for the employees prisoners of rigid schedules. Hardly convinced, the President of the Republic objects that neighbors from Le Touquet, who left to live in their holiday residence during the pandemic, are returning to settle in Paris.
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