Emmanuel Macron’s missed call
Antoine Laurent, Paris
On June 18, 1940, a voice, that of General de Gaulle, pierced the darkness and rekindled the hope of a bruised France. On March 5, 2025, Emmanuel Macron spoke, but his call, as justified as he is, evaporated in indifference. Like an actor playing a little false in front of an empty room, he declaims with emphasis, multiplies the effects of the round, but only collects the hollow echo of his own verb. He alerts the Russian threat, very real, but how to mobilize a people when you have lost their confidence? Seven long years of renunciation have erased its authority.
The Court of Auditors and Policy
Bertrand Volpette, Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)
For more than forty years, the presidency of the Court of Auditors has most often been devoted to at least national politicians: Messrs Chandernagor, Arpaillange, Joxe, Seguin, Migaud and Moscovici. The action of the current first president is part of those of Messrs Seguin and Migaud but still amplifies the rolling of instruction times, the formatting of control themes and the low accessibility by the average citizen with published relationships – to the point that accompanying syntheses have become the rule. Imperative performance indicators break the action of the financial jurisdiction and it follows that aspects of public management whose control would be particularly complex and time -consuming are only very sparingly covered. (“The Moscovici method disturbs the Court of Auditors”L’Express of March 6, 2025).
Retirees are not wealthy
ZBIGNIEW BUCZKO, Sowries (North)
I do not share the opinion of the reader of Paris as to the solidarity of retirees. I contributed for forty years. I believe that I have no contributions to make again to finance a deficit system because of poor management. To bail out the pension funds, the number of contributors must be increased, that is to say, make more French work. The problem is that the rulers did not do what is necessary to relaunch production and reindustrialize the country. You have to stop taking the retirees constantly for wealthy and milk cows! (ReadersL’Express of March 13).
Trump’s bad calculation
Albert Couzan, Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine)
President Trump is rightly concerned about the United States trade deficit. But he accuses other countries instead of questioning the causes of the phenomenon, which stems from unsuitable industrial policy led by its own country. It is indeed deliberately that US companies have outsourced their industrial production (and their pollution) to states with low labor. They did not imagine that they would be able to appropriate know-how to the point of surpassing them. That Trump seeks to remedy the situation is a good thing, but instead of attacking the internal causes of these competitiveness differentials, he chooses a policy that has the effect of blurring America with its Western allies. (“Donald Trump and customs duties: lessons from past commercial wars”on lexpress.fr).
Virtues of videoconferences
Bruno Saintes, La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime)
Visioconference is one of the modern communication tools. Rather than rejecting it as a whole, let’s learn to use it for what it brings us from beneficial, in particular expensive and polluting long distance savings. Like any progress, it undoubtedly requires time to adapt and better circumscribe its scope of use. (“Teleworking: the three illusions of meetings in Visio”by Julia de Funès, L’Express of March 6).
The Imperialism of the Franglais
Bernard Caladois, Limas (Rhône)
I carefully read the words of Amin Maalouf, perpetual secretary of the French Academy, concerning the defense of our language. Overall, I find it very optimistic about the results obtained in the face of the invader. As you have already noted in your sections, some branches of French society (Parisian?) Can no longer do without English or rather from the American. The invasion even affects our daily life. The thumb is used for screens or wheels measurements, the dates are given in AAAA/MM/JJ format, the points and commas appear anyway in numbers … Thank you, in any case, for making efforts for the safeguard of French. (“”It is statistically proven: Frenchman borrows almost only from English “, on lexpress.fr).