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About the Gilet Jaunes. I happened to be working with the Eurobarometer results (version 91.4, 2019, "Europeans’ attitudes on Trade and EU trade policy") for a piece I'm currently writing since I realized I could use some of the poll's questions as a proxy for basic knowledge of economics, calculating a general score for each European country (28 countries).

Excluding Luxembourg (*), France has the lowest score by far of all 28 European countries. French attitude seems to be: I don't care how the world works and I don't have to learn about it, I just want my baguette and it better be fresh and crispy.

(*) I assume it has something to do with being a very small country. I might be wrong.

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