France is to make five billion euros-worth of cuts in 2014 in a continuing austerity cure that saw 12.5 billion euros slashed from budgets and 36.9 billion in tax increases this year.
With few professional opportunities at hand, many Portuguese have taken the decision to leave the country. 2011 saw an increase in emigration of 85 per cent.
French unemployment hit a 14-year high at 10.6 per cent of the working population in the last quarter of 2012. Youth unemployment stood at 25.7 per cent.
The economic crisis has pushed some Europeans to leave their country looking for work. But, unlike the Spanish or even the Italians, French people used not to venture far from home.
