PARIS: France is ready to start reducing financial support to businesses and workers hit by coronavirus restrictions as its vaccination programme offers a route out of the crisis, Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne said.
The government has spent more than €40bil (US$48.8bil or RM201.91bil) in 2020 and 2021 to protect employment, benefiting 2.7 million people on furloughs last month, up from 2.4 million in March, Borne told France Inter radio.
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