For more than ten years, France's economic policy has been focused on restoring the competitiveness of companies and on reindustrialisation. If growth is to be achieved sufficiently to reduce unemployment significantly and sustainably, both objectives must be achieved. But the results so far have not been in line with expectations. Growth has never exceeded 2% for two years in a row, unemployment has been slowly reduced but has just started to rise again and France's unemployment rate remains one of the highest of the major developed economies. Finally, the external deficit in goods excluding energy is still high ...