# ‘The best on Earth’: Can weak growth undermine Europe’s ‘very sophisticated social system’?

https://mins.news/en/video/111750

- France 24 English, 2026-10-22 19:59 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJpjUVz4hUA

> As Europe falls further behind its major economic competitors, can it keep sustaining one of the world’s most ambitious social models? Former European trade commissioner and former World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy sees this as central to the continent’s mounting economic and political tensions, pointing beyond France’s immediate turmoil to a deeper European predicament.

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