France awaits Moody's verdict: Downgrade widely expected as debt fears grow • FRANCE 24 English

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. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzcGn6WKCU&amp;t=360">06:00</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzcGn6WKCU&amp;t=1380">23:00</a> Department stores, hypermarkets, and shopping centers should be open on Sundays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzcGn6WKCU&amp;t=420">07:00</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzcGn6WKCU&amp;t=1140">19:00</a> 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 miliards ( 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 miliards ( billion ) euros 💶 more thanks to this increase in VAT to 25%.<br>Switzerland is the biggest beneficiary of the European single market of the Schengen area, even though it does not pay a contribution to the European Union budget for access to the duty-free European market, Switzerland gains 2,900 euros per year 💶 GDP per capita, Switzerland benefits from the &quot;brain drain&quot; of European workers Switzerland has benefited the most from workers from the Western Bałkans, Switzerland should pay 1.26% of GDP annually 11.304 miliards ( billion ) euros 💶 contributions for access to the European single market of the Schengen area and for the use of foreign workers

It was Quantative Easing by all these central bankers last 20 years since the GFC that will be dead when the bill comes due.<br>And you better believe housing isnt going to come down cause old people need those nest eggs<br><br>its pretty simple...young people should be furious...

Somehow after paying into the system and public contract for thirty years and the government wants to tear up and throw away that contract (did happen in the US) of course people are angry. With mass illegal migration you can&#39;t conceivably sell it as a sacrifice for the betterment of your grandchildrens lives!

ARE SPAIN, GERMANY AND UK NEXT:<br>Bloomberg—BREAKING—SHOCKING—French government bonds become riskier than third of the country&#39;s corporate bonds- By Bloombergcom. — Published—10/09/2026 <br><br>“France’s corporate bonds are now trading as if they are safer than the government’s, with nearly €215 billion of corporate debt indicated at lower yields than French government securities. This shift reflects growing investor confidence in companies amid concerns over France&#39;s fiscal stability and political uncertainty.”

Like someone on an American or Australian news panel said a few days ago: <br>&quot;The French want the living standards of the 20th century but they have the demographics of the 21st century, a production model of the 19th century, and a debt situation akin to the 18th century.&quot;

You want the state to pay for everything.<br><br>Well, eventually you run out of other people&#39;s money.<br><br>W. Europe doesnt get that all of those fancy cities are the product of resource extraction from the past 500 years of overseas empires. Spain, France, and Britain are just nearing the tail end of that historical inertia.<br><br>The further east you go, the more nations that had to be more creative and frugal because they didnt have that luck, or like Italy and Germany, took American money and used it to build up local industry instead of spending money trying to maintain or subjugate parts of their falling empires.<br><br><br>France will have to cut back drastically without access to the old France NW Africa.

The World population has doubled in the last 50 years (from 4 billion to 8 billion) <br>There is not enough money to properly fund the welfare state (health, education, firefighters...)<br>Unless cheap energy flows again, prices and poor job conditions will keep worsening <br>Europe can&#39;t afford to fund another international war