In 1897, the French writer Alfred Jarry invented a concept: the Pataphysics, which inspired the surrealists. It was the science of imaginary solutions. The campaign for the next presidential election, in France, these days, would justify creating a new one, Patapolitics, the science of imaginary political solutions, which are mentioned in the programs of some candidates. They are promoting completely inappropriate answers to the problems France has to cope with, but they are presented as solutions, capable to make people dreaming.

In this competition, the winner is, without any hesitation, Marine Le Pen with her project to abandon euro. It ...

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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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