Usually, when we talk about deficit regarding the French economy, it is first the State budget one. We even were satisfied with its light reduction in 2022 compared to the initial forecasts. It has been revised downward and has so reached 147 billion when was expected at the end of last year a deficit near 170 billion. To the opposite the increase at an unprecedent level of the trade deficit, which is a much more revealing and worrying indicator of the weaknesses of the French economy, has given place to few comments. At the end of February, for the last ...

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It is not only in politics that the wrong ideas are prospering, in economy too and they have a hard life. Forty years ago, the 3^rd Mauroy government, after its reshuffle, announced measures which will be qualified as a rigor plan or as the “rigor turnaround”, along with a third realignment inside the European Monetary System. It is then interpreted by the opposition of the right as the recognition of the failure of the economic policy followed since the election of François Mitterrand and still today by a part of the left as a treason and the submission ...

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The publication of Stellantis financial results with a net profit of 16.8 billion euros must not lead to the conclusion that the car industry has rebounded, has surmounted the past difficulties and will not be confronted in the future with new crisis. Anyway, Renault is far from having accomplished the same achievement because its net profit, before deduction of the two billion euros loss resulting from its exit from Russia, has only reached 1.6 billion. The sector, everywhere in the world, has suffered two successive crisis. The lockdown has dissuaded household from going to buy a vehicle because ...

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