Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Sarkozy urges "tighten their belts" to not end as Greece and Portugal

Paris. .- The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has defended the Executive adjustment measures and urged the French to invest and work harder to prevent the country get to be in the position of Greece or Portugal. In a speech from the department of Ardennes, a region working in the northeast from which coined the slogan "work more to earn more" during the election campaign of 2007, the Head of State insisted on the slogan "if you want to keep France as a fifth world power.

" "We can not remain on the sidelines of the changes. France can not simply look at their past and heritage. We have to work more and invest more. It is not a question of left or right of the majority or the minority, but of meaning common, "he said. The same day the Budget Minister, François Baroin, announced the decision to freeze the salary of staff in 2012, for the second consecutive year as one of the measures to meet the objectives of fighting the deficit, Sarkozy defended need to strive and save.

"Our country has a deficit budget for 35 years, and it is time that we solve. I was not chosen for France to end up in the situation in Greece, Ireland, Portugal or the United States. We must save," is justified president. A year after the next presidential election, and at a time when his popularity reached historic lows and the popular classes did not reproach him fulfilled campaign promises, Sarkozy recalled: "In times of crisis we are forced to tighten our belts" .

"The biggest risk is immobility. We had to respond to the crisis with some measures. (...) Imagine the disaster for France would be in the position of Greece," he said from one of the sites was a key step in the previous presidential campaign. "Everybody, all levels of society, should work.

It is necessary absolutely that we decrease our spending," said Sarkozy, just a month after the announcement that France's public deficit was 7 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP) in 2010, five percent less than in 2009. At the same time, the president supported the Government's proposal that companies with dividend pay a premium of up to 1,000 euros for each worker as a way to more equitably distribute the benefits of companies.

"Sharing the value of the company is a central issue. (...) When recovery is normal for employees who have been asked an effort during the crisis to benefit from it. It is a principle that I will not give "he said in reference to a measure that could result in a bill before the summer. "Not all reforms are good, but the principle that we need to save and work more is pure common sense," he said in that speech that Gallic media said was aimed at regaining the electorate worker.

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