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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The debate about the project of closing Fessenheim nuclear plant, which is not motivated by any security concern since its operation is authorized until 2022, is very sharp because of the 2 200 layoffs which will result of its closure. It is much more than in Florange for instance and it leads us to question about the consequences of the Ecologists economic choices on employment. This project was a François Hollande commitment precisely to get their support during the last presidential election. The same demand had been formulated, on the other side of the Rhine, by the Bade-Würtemberger ...

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The end of the degradation of the economic activity, in France, during 2016 final quarter, is it the signal announcing, at last, growth comeback in 2017? For the time being, nothing is sure. French economy is stagnating for four years. Last estimations of 2016 GDP growth, 1.2%, shouldn’t create illusions. 2016 was a bissextile year with, a top of that, three public holidays occurring on a Sunday. The rebound, forecast for the 4^th quarter, will more reflect a catching up after the previous six months stagnation, than the signal of a durable trend. But that catching up ...

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