Jean-Luc Melenchon, the hard-left French presidential hopeful, will pledge to raise the minimum wage and restore the country’s retirement age to 60 when he launches his 2027 election programme on Saturday.

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    2 days ago

    Not that i don’t support those plans, but will he pay for them by selling France and Europe to Putin?

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      You support that plans even after you concluded that i is not possible to pay for without selling France and Europe to Putin?

      EDIT: forget what i said. I did read too much into this. You did not say that its only possible by selling France and Europe to Putin.

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        Taxing the elite properly, and preventing flight of both those oligarchs and their capital, seems unrealistic to you?