The director of the IFRAP Foundation, 10 years after her book On va dans le mur (We’re Headed for the Wall), has published a new book entitled Face au mur (Facing the Wall).
Themes include: Debt, deindustrialization, standards, welfare, and insecurity. The approach is identical: French comparison with the European and Canadian environment, critical review of the highlights and finally proposal of corrective actions.
The comparison with Western nations underlines the negative singularity of France on almost all the criteria used, more particularly the proliferation of standards, the excessive and ever-increasing weight of administration, the complexity of the territorial network, the high level of public debt and taxation, the particularly low volume of hours worked aggravated over time by the late entry into working life and the very low rate of seniors in activity, the explosion of strike days, the loss of competitiveness and its consequences on industry and agriculture, the degradation of public services… Uncontrolled immigration, growing insecurity, and a dilution of the National.
Resolutely proactive, the author identifies and evaluates at each stage the actions to be carried out, the decisions to be taken to redress the economic and financial situation, likely to redesign a future.
Inspired by the benchmarking approach, a chapter is devoted to the policies successfully undertaken by other European countries historically confronted with difficulties more or less similar to those experienced by France.
The book is enriched with data and graphics that illustrate and reinforce the analyses.
Agnès Verdier-Molinié’s book summarizes, the situation of France in an international context in full upheaval, proposes a set of actions already proven abroad, likely to raise the bar before it is too late.
VERDIER-MOLINIE Agnès, Director of the IFRAP Foundation. Author of “On va dans le mur” (We’re going into the wall) at Albin Michel, “Le vrai état de la France” (The true state of France) and “Où va notre argent?” (Where does our money go?)
Hubert Alcaraz’note
