France has a problem with long lived institutions - they get filled with "union tenured" staff and new work suffers. I have heard that the French are well aware

France has a problem with long lived institutions - they get filled with "union tenured" staff and new work suffers. I have heard that the French are well aware of this problem and when they establish an institution they set the budget and longevity for it. At the end of that time it is shut down and all the released people must find new jobs based on their merits. A long process to get rid of dead wood, which in the USA would be long gone.