The crisis which is affecting the French left is less the result of a clash between personal ambitions than of its incapacity to define a vision for the France future and to elaborate proposals capable to conciliate the demand for social progress which is its raison d’être with the new world the country must integrate.

A vision is created from a thought. That one is the fruit of a reflection which is improved by meetings with people from diverse origins all along a life. That was François Mitterrand legacy, which gives him today the stature of a statesman ...

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In 1897, the French writer Alfred Jarry invented a concept: the Pataphysics, which inspired the surrealists. It was the science of imaginary solutions. The campaign for the next presidential election, in France, these days, would justify creating a new one, Patapolitics, the science of imaginary political solutions, which are mentioned in the programs of some candidates. They are promoting completely inappropriate answers to the problems France has to cope with, but they are presented as solutions, capable to make people dreaming.

In this competition, the winner is, without any hesitation, Marine Le Pen with her project to abandon euro. It ...

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The publication of the French economy figures for 2016, even if some are provisional, permits to draw up an evaluation of the economic policy followed during the last five years and to compare its results with the initial objectives. Its purpose, through a supply-side oriented policy was to increase enterprises profit margins to give them the possibility to put the French economy back on a sufficient growth path to reduce unemployment. In the same time, the government had to rebalance public finance to comply with European criteria. François Hollande had announced he will fulfill commitments inscribed in the European ...

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