Is Macron’s 7% unemployment rate achievable?

While we think that President Macron’s labour reform plans will be broadly successful, his target for France’s unemployment rate to fall to 7% by 2022 still seems overly ambitious. With his planned cuts to public spending partly dependent on lower unemployment, more fiscal restraint may be needed.

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