November 10, 2025
France has a habit of playing with fire when it comes to taxation, and the backlash is usually delayed. For decades, the use of production taxation, which duplicates traditional taxation, has undermined French competitiveness.
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July 21, 2025
At the end of 2024, French general government debt stood at 113% of the country’s GDP, or approximately €50,000 per capita. Since 1969, the debt-to-GDP ratio has increased eightfold.
February 13, 2025
At a time when nuclear power is enjoying a resurgence of enthusiasm among a section of public opinion and among major players such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft, who are investing billions in it to power their data centres while limiting CO2 emissions, the new European Commission includes two representatives in key positions who are notoriously opposed to nuclear power.
January 29, 2025
At €3.228 trillion, France’s debt has reached unprecedented levels, equating to 112% of GDP – far above the 60% cap set by European rules.
July 26, 2024
It is significant that in France, farmers are angry about the Egalim laws.
March 28, 2024
The French people are in a continuous state of anxiety about pensions, but they do not see the common thread connecting all of them: the ageing of a society that is ill-prepared for it.
September 4, 2023
The need for sovereignty – digital, technological, medical, energy, or food – has become a priority, at least in the discourse.
May 3, 2023
Until recently, the telecommunications market was held up as an EU success story, with Europeans emerging as the big winners. European consumers were indeed the great beneficiaries of competition, which went hand in hand with low prices.
July 13, 2022
President Macron announced in February 2022 that he wanted to ‘restart the construction of nuclear reactors’ with six new reactors after the definitive closure of the nuclear power plant in Fessenheim (Haut-Rhin) in June 2020.
