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Alain Boublil Blog

   

France

French economic mistakes

The succession of bad figures concerning the French economy since the beginning of the year, zero growth, inflation above 2%, unemployment on the rise with a rate back above 8%, trade deficit that is not being reduced and finally public deficits and debt at worrying levels, has not given rise to sufficient reflection to identify the causes and suggest solutions. This is all the more disappointing given that major elections will now be less than a year away.

The discourse boils down to transferring the reasons for these obvious failures to others, those that preceded it (everything began to go ...

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France is stagnating

 

INSEE has just published its first estimate of the growth figures of the French economy in the 1st quarter of 2026, i.e. 0%. Comments about this stagnation do not seem to have understood the nature of the problem. Just because we went from +0.2% in the 4th quarter of 2025 to 0% does not mean that there is a new fact. The imprecision of the numbers after the decimal point should be taken into account. Secondly, a comparison is made between the crisis in the Middle East and the results of the 1st quarter. In reality, this very ...

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Public debt : the challenges and the remedies

The announcement by the rating agency Moody's that France AA will be maintained with a negative outlook is a refutation of the catastrophist discourse widely spread in the political world and in the media. AA is one of the best ratings in the euro area, but the negative outlook is justified by the lack of clarification on the 2026 and 2027 budgets, with the risk of a return to the same political instability that followed the dissolution of the National Assembly in 2024. It is this instability and not the situation of public finances that was at the origin ...

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