French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing $20 billion in new measures to blunt the impact of higher prices on households. Inflation remains lower in France than in the U.S. and most other European countries.
PARIS—The government of French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed 20 billion euros in new measures aimed at softening inflation’s impact on French households.
The measures, part of a new bill that was to be submitted in Parliament on Thursday, include checks issued to low-income households for food purchases, an increase in pensions and a boost to social benefits. They are a sign of how France and other Western governments are coming under intense political pressure to counter global inflationary forces, from supply-chain disruptions to
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