French Lawmakers Consider Expanding €1 Student Meals to All University Students

Towards the end of student precariousness? At the height of the Covid-19 crisis, all students benefited from the reduction to one euro of the price of meals. After the pandemic, only the 750,000 scholarship holders benefit from it. This is "unacceptable" for Socialist MP Fatiha Keloua-Hachi, co-signatory of a bill aimed at generalizing one-euro meals in university restaurants, reports Le Parisien. The price of meals imposed on other students in Crous catering sites is 3.30 euros. The measure could cost between 60 and 90 million euros per year, estimates this university professor.

In addition to scholarship students, there are other categories of students who benefit from the measure. "We have cases of students who, due to their parents’ sufficient income, do not receive a scholarship but are still precarious because they are in family breakdown," describes a collaborator of Sylvie Retailleau, the occupant of Rue Descartes, without specifying their number. These "are offered 1 euro meals while their file is being examined," then they can become fully eligible beneficiaries all year round.