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And don't expect any debate on economic policy in the next presidential campaign either… It's just going to be “should we tax the billionaires” vs “should we sa

by stymaar 11d ago

And don't expect any debate on economic policy in the next presidential campaign either… It's just going to be “should we tax the billionaires” vs “should we save a few basis points of GDP in pensions”, none of which is remotely close to the order of magnitude that's needed to put the country back on its feet.

dgellow 11d ago
It will be all about immigration and cost of life crisis. And of course the general finger pointing at the EU bogeyman
- stymaar 10d ago
  Indeed, and a bunch of culture war issues imported straight from the US by the people who pretends to care the most about French “identity”. But I was talking about the economy-related topics.
rdm_blackhole 11d ago
I am not expecting anything. I left France a long while ago and I am not planning on coming back anytime soon except for holidays. > the order of magnitude that's needed to put the country back on its feet The amount of reforms needed in France could fit in an encyclopedia. LFI or the RN will not fix this mess and the center who has been in power for 10 years is all but useless. The old center-left and center-right parties have all been in power also and led us to this place which means that are not the solution either. Seems to me that France is well and truly stuck on a slow but certain decline. But the other EU countries are not doing much better either.
- stymaar 10d ago
  France doesn't need “reforms” though, quite the opposite. France needs a project, and a project behind which the French population can rally. Because unpopular “reforms” carried on by centrists with a Thatcher envy is all we got over the past 25 years and that's what got us where we are now, with no growth and a decimated political landscape. The said can be said about Germany and the UK as well, by the way.

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And don't expect any debate on economic policy in the next presidential campaign either… It's just going to be “should we tax the billionaires” vs “should we sa

by stymaar 11d ago

dgellow 11d ago
It will be all about immigration and cost of life crisis. And of course the general finger pointing at the EU bogeyman
- stymaar 10d ago
  Indeed, and a bunch of culture war issues imported straight from the US by the people who pretends to care the most about French “identity”. But I was talking about the economy-related topics.
rdm_blackhole 11d ago
I am not expecting anything. I left France a long while ago and I am not planning on coming back anytime soon except for holidays. > the order of magnitude that's needed to put the country back on its feet The amount of reforms needed in France could fit in an encyclopedia. LFI or the RN will not fix this mess and the center who has been in power for 10 years is all but useless. The old center-left and center-right parties have all been in power also and led us to this place which means that are not the solution either. Seems to me that France is well and truly stuck on a slow but certain decline. But the other EU countries are not doing much better either.
- stymaar 10d ago
  France doesn't need “reforms” though, quite the opposite. France needs a project, and a project behind which the French population can rally. Because unpopular “reforms” carried on by centrists with a Thatcher envy is all we got over the past 25 years and that's what got us where we are now, with no growth and a decimated political landscape. The said can be said about Germany and the UK as well, by the way.