Facing the social crisis, the government answers that its economic policy is the right one, that the current reforms are producing their first results and these ones are visible regarding employment and growth. It well prevents itself, to the opposite, to comment foreign exchanges numbers which remain alarming. The trade deficit excluding energy is still near 20 billion euro when the policies followed for ten years had, as an objective, to restore the French industry competitiveness. The working costs reduction and the taxes diminutions in favor of enterprises, financed by large by the budget deficit were supposed to regain market ...

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Instead of going to rest at Bregançon or at Marrakech, French political leaders would have been better inspired to go to Sienna. Inside the Palazzo Pubblico, they would have been able to admire the Ambroggio Lorenzetti large fresco, the Allegory of the good and of the bad government. On the wall located at the right of the central panel where are sit the Ministers, is represented a peaceful and prosperous city where happy inhabitants are walking, located in the middle of a campaign where fields are well maintained and where olive trees are growing. On the left, to the ...

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Crises are not always financial ones. They can hurt an industrial sector and if this one is important as the car industry in France and even more in Germany, that can have repercussions on the whole economy. Our country has already had that experience in the Seventies and the Eighties with plant closures and massive redundancies in the steel industry or with telecommunications twenty years later when the rise of the mobile phones has affected all the information treatment and transmission systems. These crises have provoked the disappearance or the passage under foreign control of national industry jewels. The car ...

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