September 10: Why the “Block Everything” movement will have no real economic impact (including the credit card strike)
Social movements rarely have significant economic effects over the long term, economist Sylvain Bersinger assures Le Nouvel Obs. This includes the call to avoid using bank cards, which is circulating on social media.
By The New Obs
On a wall in Paris, a call for mobilization on September 10, a citizens' movement born on social networks under the banner "Block Everything" and calling for France to be brought to a standstill. JOEL SAGET / AFP
" What we want is a general strike! " chanted protesters on Wednesday, September 10, at Place du Châtelet in Paris, as part of the spontaneous "Block everything" movement . They chanted the slogan, echoed almost everywhere in France: " We are determined to block the country. " With the ambition of " blocking the French economy ," in order to express social anger in the run-up to the budget review, for which the...
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