PARIS: France's culture minister pleaded Thursday for an end to the controversy over the €850 million pledged to restore Notre-Dame cathedral, which critics have suggested would be better spent on the poor.
The controversy has undercut hopes expressed by President Emmanuel Macron for the divided country to"come together" in the wake of the fire, which is widely suspected to have been caused by renovation work underway on its steeple. "In one click, 200 million, 100 million. That shows the inequality which we regularly denounce in this country," the head of the CGT trade union, Philippe Martinez, said on Wednesday.
"Notre Dame will be rebuilt, I hope its foundations are strong, I hope that our foundations are even stronger, but I fear they are not," she told the European parliament on Tuesday, referring to the fight against climate change.
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