In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon explores this very French specificity which has worsened since the end of the Covid and which is expensive with Céline Delbecque and Etienne Girard, journalists at the Société de L’Express service.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Charlotte Baris (writing), Mathias Penguilly (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: Idéfix Studios
Music and design: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Image credits: Cyano66/iStockphoto
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: I must tell you that as soon as we started working on our episode of the day, I thought of a very well-known scene… When people say “forms” and “bureaucracy”, I immediately see a passage in the film “The Twelve Labors of Asterix”…
And it’s true that sometimes, when you have to deal with the French administration, you feel as lost as the little Gaul…
Let’s take an example: you want an extension for your house. For this you need a building permit and you are asked for a very specific document…
Excerpt from the film “The Twelve Labors of Asterix”: “We want to get the A38 pass… go to counter 1, left lane, last door on the right…”
Xavier Yvon: Suddenly, you enter the maze of French administration.
Excerpt from the film “The Twelve Labors of Asterix”: “You have been misinformed, you must go to counter 2… here next door? No, that’s number 8, consult the usher” “3rd floor, corridor B, door 6”
Xavier Yvon: And when you finally think you have gathered all the necessary documents for your file…
Excerpt from the film “The Twelve Labors of Asterix”: “We want the A38 laissez-passer… do you have the blue form? No… Counter 1” “she left for lunch… “counter 5” “the pink form…”
Xavier Yvon: A simple task, which sometimes looks like an obstacle course…
But it’s not just the Gauls who encounter difficulties with the administration… On the other side of the counter, civil servants also regularly get lost in the maze of bureaucracy…
Excerpt from the film “The Twelve Labors of Asterix”: “As stipulated in the new circular B65… New circular… do you know it? You should find out…” “It is certainly the service that forgot to warn us…” ”.
Circulars, forms, more and more standards… In this episode of La Loupe, we tell you about a very French problem: the administrative burn-out of our public services… The situation has worsened since the Covid and no one seems to be able to stop it…
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Jérôme Fourquet: “Bureaucratic illness weighs on society with the weight of an enormous ball”
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