Will the French allow their PM to reduce the number of public holidays?

法国人会允许他们的总理减少公共假日吗?

World Business Report

2025-07-16

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Will ending two public holidays in France help to reduce national debt? Rahul Tandon talks to a professor at the Toulouse School of Economics. Also, Indonesia agrees to purchase $15 billion in American energy, $4.5 billion worth of agricultural products and 50 Boeing jets as part of a trade deal with the United States. Nvidia says it will soon resume sales of its high-end artificial intelligence chips to China. And we look at the new trend - hiring etiquette coaches for Gen Z employees. You can contact us on WhatsApp or send us a voicenote: +44 330 678 3033.
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  • hiring people to help those it from Gen Z settle in the workplace but let's start by talking about a possible trade deal between the US and Indonesia

  • because in the last few hours this is what the US president Donald Trump has said Indonesia is very strong on copper but we have full access to everything we will pay no tariffs so they are giving us access into Indonesia which we never had that's probably the biggest part of the deal And the other part is they are going to pay 19% and we are going to pay nothing.

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  • According to this trade deal... tariffs on Indonesian goods coming into America will be 19 per cent.

  • Now this obviously has not been confirmed by officials in Indonesia and we haven't yet seen any paperwork to sort of back up the claim of a trade deal.

  • But it does seem that if there isn't one yet then they're pretty close.