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Originally Posted by Big Brian
Don't the other EU Countries have a much higher Unemployment rate? As a whole they are much higher than the UK.
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Not sure what you're getting at exactly. The French have set their standards above the EU minimum and therefore have room to cut back on their standards and still meet the EU ones. If they hadn't increased their standards and kept them at the EU minimum, but for some reason still had big unemployment problems there would be no option available to be able to drop below the EU level. Any standards have to be set at a level that can cope with the bad times. You can't increase standards, spending etc simply based on a few years of passing prosperity. Somebody should have told Gordon Brown that.