By the end of 2006, after about five years of the euro, a French magazine Le Pèlerin reported that 52% of the [[French]] feel that the euro is a "bad thing", blaming it for price hikes and [[job loss]]es. 71% of French [[blue-collar workers]] said that the euro has hurt them personally.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/12/28/cneuro28.xml French hostility to euro begins to gather pace], The Telegraph, 27 December 2006</ref> | By the end of 2006, after about five years of the euro, a French magazine Le Pèlerin reported that 52% of the [[French]] feel that the euro is a "bad thing", blaming it for price hikes and [[job loss]]es. 71% of French [[blue-collar workers]] said that the euro has hurt them personally.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/12/28/cneuro28.xml French hostility to euro begins to gather pace], The Telegraph, 27 December 2006</ref> |