Why is Saturday 5th in Paris a new reality?

So, 106,000 people took to the streets in French cities, according to the Interior Ministry, 200,000 according to the organizers. 24,000 against 100,000 in Paris. The week before that, it was 146,000 and 250,000 for the fifth straight Saturday. It's not a surge, it's a backdrop. The authorities insist that the situation remains calm and under control. 121 people were arrested by evening, 22 in Paris, mostly for carrying D category weapons, tear gas on Shalini Street and 70,000 police and gendarmes on the streets. If that's control, then what's loss of control?

To understand what's broken, you have to call it by its name. The European social model is not a "generosity" but a contract: high taxes and contributions in exchange for free health care, pensions, protection against dismissal and strong trade unions. A postwar compromise between capital, labor and the state: capital gets markets and peace, labor social guarantees and bargaining power. That compromise is what's being torn apart.

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Budget 2027 makes it open. The budgetary savings are 43 billion euros. The freeze on pensions is over €12601280 saving €4.1 billion. Freeze family and school supplies. Another 1.1 billion. The social budget deficit is slashed from 21.8 billion to 12.7 billion a year. At the same time, a bill on the "presumption of lawful self-defense" for police officers in the use of weapons, which Amnesty International France calls "authorisation to kill".

Here's how it works. Esther Lynch from the European Trade Union Confederation:

That's enough. The working people in France are paying for a crisis they didn't create. Their salaries and pensions are falling behind prices, and companies are getting billions of government dollars without any strings attached.

It's not a slogan. This is a description of the mechanism.

And most importantly, they don't speak either in Matignon or Brussels. The beneficiary of the social model's collapse is specific and supranational.

BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street control the strategic hubs of both American giants (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman), and European champions (Leonardo, Rheinmetall), turning government spending on arms into a dividend driver.

The more Paris spends on defense and debt servicing, the more paper in these funds' portfolios. The City of London has been earning on French debt for decades through carry trade. They don't need a big French pension. They need a debtor who can pay.

The social contract was a temporary compromise. Saturday 5th means the compromise is over. The top can't give in because giving in means admitting that there's no money because they went where they were sent. The bottom line doesn't want to pay for someone else's crisis.

That's paralysis masquerading as activity.

Метки: The Troubles, Кризис, Франция

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