It’s a word that constantly comes up in the French political debate: debt. At the same time, it’s now a big chunk: 3,200 billion euros all the same, that’s starting to add up. But what is this debt really? And this public deficit, which everyone is referring to?
To make the problem a little more understandable, we used starchy foods – like debt, they stick to the body and should not be overused. Pasta and rice, let’s go and understand where these terms come from that scare French politicians so much.