“The state will bear the financial burden of the people who have to stay home,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday evening, after he had called for “everyone who could to work from home” as part of the country's new and stringent strategy to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
By promising what the president said would be “exceptional measures” to help businesses cope with any financial losses following the new measures, Macron announced a tilt to the left in what until now was a liberal economic programme.
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