22.1 billion euros in deficit: why the social security hole is back

It is an expression that the under thirty cannot know … or not as much as their elders! The social security hole is back. This allegory, popularized in the 1990s, under Alain Juppé, then Prime Minister, to make the French aware of the explosion of deficits of the various social security organizations – illness, retirement … – reappears in the political debate.