Tag: Economic policy
Debt: the drop in France’s rating hides another reality, by Nicolas Bouzou
The downgrading of France’s public debt rating from AA to AA- by the rating agency Fitch sparked a number of political comments, which largely missed the point. The left believed…
Schools, town halls… The government’s plan to renovate public buildings
“The challenge of the century”. This is, with a little emphasis, the way in which the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion will approach the subject of the thermal…
Oxfam and the bosses: simplism in action
Haro on the donkey, second. After the hated billionaires, the French branch of the NGO Oxfam attacked last week the voracious bosses, and their “indecent remuneration”. Cécile Duflot, its managing…
Military programming law: resources, but for what policy? By Jean-Francois Cope
After the thorny issue of pensions, Emmanuel Macron advocated in his last speech “100 days of appeasement, unity, ambition and action in the service of France”. The military programming law,…
Public services: enough promises, place for results, by Nicolas Bouzou
The philosopher Pierre-Henri Tavoillot explains that the democratic crisis is less a crisis of representation than a crisis of efficiency. In other words, multiplying citizens’ conventions and inventing national councils…
Debt: why the Fitch agency downgrades France’s rating
It is a demotion that sounds like a new warning for France. The rating agency Fitch Ratings announced on Friday April 28 in a press release that it was going…
Inflation: climate change drives up prices, fights against…
More than a year without abundant rain, and a whole department is alarmed. The president of the Pyrénées-Orientales has just sent a letter to the Elysée, worrying about “an ecological…
Public spending, end of life, presidential 2027: letters from the readers of L’Express
Doctors facing the end of life Patrice Micolon, Viroflay (Yvelines) Many doctors display their opposition to the euthanasia of terminally ill patients in the name of respect for life and…
France Travail: the reform of the RSA, a small statistical bomb
The thick report that Thibaut Guilluy, High Commissioner for Employment, has just made public details 99 measures to facilitate access to work for all. One of them, the fifth, seemingly…
“Of Boys and Men”: Richard Reeves and the vicissitudes of modern man
Man of the 2020s, but man not really serene: this is the observation made by Richard Reeves. An original expert on the middle classes, the Anglo-American researcher focuses on males.…