At the crossroads of the departmental highway, a banner was held on a fence: “Joigny is looking for a doctor”. Higher up, on the hill overlooking the outdated city, is the gate of a faculty which is adorned with a calico proclaiming “No to closing classes”. Under the December solar, Joigny appears charming with its slim streets of medieval homes dominated by the citadel of the Counts of Gondi and its vineyards within the background. The decor, nevertheless, hides one of many cities most affected by state reform.
The former sub-prefecture of Yonne skilled an actual public social plan in fifteen years, seeing most of its nationwide administrations shut their workplaces. A Senate report even designated it, in 2011, “martyr metropolis of the GDPR [révision générale des politiques publiques] ». In truth, town misplaced greater than 500 civil servants. An actual bloodletting for a city of 9,000 inhabitants.
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