La satisfaction avec laquelle ont été accueillis les derniers chiffres relatifs à l’économie française est loin d’être justifiée. La croissance au rythme trimestriel de 0,5% constitue certes une amélioration après la longue période de stagnation qu’a connue la France comme le retour des créations d’emplois. Mais celles-ci n’atteignent toujours pas le niveau requis pour qu’enfin le chômage baisse significativement. La hausse continuelle observée depuis près de 10 ans a été stoppée mais le retournement de tendance qui permettrait une diminution du nombre de l ...

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The president of the French Republic has warned his ministers: their next holidays will be limited to the strict minimum because the program of the government is so dense. That recommendation applies to the minister in charge of the ecological transition, Nicolas Hulot. He reminded it to him when he received him this week at the Elysée palace. To take into account environment is not only political stakes, it is an essential factor of the transformation of the society which will affect everybody’s behaviors, like, sixty years ago, holidays generalization, most of the time by the sea. It ...

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After the French president set the course of his action for the next five years and the Prime minister presented to the Parliament the main thrust of his economic policy, two questions need an answer: on which trend the French economy is today? Are considered actions appropriate to cope with the challenges the French economy is confronted?

During the 1^st quarter, growth estimation has been revised upward twice, from 0.3% to 0.5%. But in the INSEE calculus, the key element, volatile by definition, was the constitution of high inventories which hardly offset the negative contribution of foreign ...

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