Tag: Economic policy
the Reserve Fund, the two-in-one solution for France, by Nicolas Marques – L’Express
Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, has just proposed drawing from the Retirement Reserve Fund (FRR) to finance the pause on pension reform. This project demonstrates a headlong…
Canada under commercial pressure – L’Express
In love, as in international business, partners sometimes choose to renew their vows. Canada, Mexico and the United States are preparing for 2026. Representatives of the three states will have…
Faced with Donald Trump, these three responses that the EU must give – L’Express
Europe is trapped by its way of thinking about ethics. Everyone knows the enlightening distinction made by Max Weber between ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility. The first sticks…
Scott Bessent, the man who will have to manage Donald Trump’s economic contradictions – L’Express
In the gallery of colorful portraits of the Trump administration, the future American Treasury Secretary stands out. No known past in the wrestling world like Education Secretary-designate Linda McMahon. No…
the proposals of the Court of Auditors to put an end to “whatever it costs” – L’Express
“Twelve proposals that can be initiated from the 2025 finance law”: the Court of Auditors, which has been sounding the alarm on public finances for months, has decided to get…
this unexpected consequence on managers – L’Express
“Very limited” tax increases: this is what the Minister of the Economy, Eric Lombard, promised the French between Christmas and the 1st of the year. A month earlier, his predecessor,…
How bureaucracy contributes to the economic suicide of France, by Denys de Béchillon – L’Express
Several big French bosses have recently sounded the alarm about what the loss of national competitiveness owes to bureaucracy – by which we mean the piling up of standards deemed…
these revealing figures – L’Express
Some plates are made of hardened steel. The French would be hostile to the market economy, viscerally attached to an obese State, resistant to the entrepreneurial spirit, stuck in a…
“A forecast without a budget is like the weather without a model” – L’Express
Governments change, but bad habits persist. On February 18, 2024, Bruno Le Maire, then Minister of the Economy, appeared on TF1’s 8 p.m. show to announce a sharp downward revision…
Fiscal fed up, this threat looming over the French economy – L’Express
Economic surveys that are falling, productivity at half mast, an unemployment rate that is rising… Between the start of 2024, when the government was banking on an “OG effect” and…