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One solution to improve the situation in France would be to open shops on Sundays and extend the opening hours of stores, hypermarkets, shopping centers, and malls from Monday to Saturday, from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Department stores, hypermarkets, and shopping centers should be open on Sundays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., as is the case in Central and Eastern Europe. The retirement age should be raised to 67. This plan is being implemented throughout Europe, Canada, the United States, Japan, and South Korea. This would improve France&#39;s financial situation, and the VAT rate in France should be increased to 25%, as is the case in Norway.<br>Raising the VAT rate from 20% to 25% would generate approximately €50 billion in additional revenue for the budgets of France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany. Together, these four European countries will benefit from approximately 200 billion euros more thanks to this increase in VAT to 25%.