Before threatening to nationalize private firms, politicians should start by nationalizing the state; that is to say to subordinate it to the vested interests of the Nation and not to their political and media ambitions…
For a very long time, in France, the political powers have enjoyed requesting reports. More precisely, they have requested them since the early 1780s, when the new monarch, who would meet a tragic fate, constrained by a major food,…
Depuis trois ans, les Américains ont réussi à faire croire qu’il n’y avait plus de crise qu’en Europe. Et mieux, même, que l’Europe en était la seule cause, sans vouloir admettre que les désordres financiers ont commencé avec l’endettement excessif des ménages américains, et avec la titrisation de ces emprunts…
While, in Paris, some gathered together around a precautionary principle too often obscurantist, to discuss mainly what not to do in order not to harm the environment, others gathered in Le Havre from around the world, more than one thousand persons, to listen to 100 entrepreneurs, trade unionists, directors of NGOs, of mutual societies, of trade unions and of large companies, who came to explain what they do to improve it.
According to the popular metaphor, probably dating back to the first railway tunnels, in the late 19th century, we may soon see in Europe the light at the end of the tunnel, since it would be possible, in an optimistic vein, to think that the crisis of the euro is approaching its resolution and that a lasting solution will soon be implemented.
The economic situation of France is now clear: the country is on the very edge of a recession which will reduce tax revenues, and will make it very difficult to bring the budget deficit to 3% by the end of 2013.
This eternal question, as old as humanity, has been answered in different ways over time.
From an exciting conference, bringing together, with no other purpose than that of exchanging ideas, somewhere in the U.S. this week, about thirty people of fifteen different nationalities, I glean some conclusions that perhaps can be useful to our discussions.
Like previous governments (except for, a very old one, that of Pierre Mauroy in 1981), the present government considers that it can neither pronounce the word discipline, nor let it pronounce by any member of its majority. It sees there the guilty admission of a desire to involve all the French people in the national recovery effort.
