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In the early days of 2026, many experts joined in condemning the French (and European) economies for falling behind their American and Chinese competitors, if not indeed for a general decline. \u201cFrance is falling off the pace,\u201d these experts essentially argued: productive capacities have weakened; offshoring and the lack of investment in research and development have reduced the country\u2019s ability to control and secure its supply chains; the erosion of domestic production is reflected in the fact that it produces only 36% of the manufactured goods consumed in France (while between 20% and 25% of French food is also imported). Meanwhile, the share of public debt held by non\u2011residents is increasing. \u201cThe country is adrift,\u201d wrote the economist Christian Saint-\u00c9tienne, \u201cFrance is threatened with a general downgrading.\u201d Given this assessment, what is to be done?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louis Gallois tells us that \u201cgrowth is the absolutely necessary\u2014though not sufficient\u2014solution to the problems the country is facing\u201d. But \u201cgrowth cannot be achieved by decree\u201d. It requires an increase in the volume and quality of work (a higher employment rate among youth and older people, together with controlled immigration) and improved skill levels (education and training). Moreover, \u201cproduction processes have to be enhanced by technical progress\u201d (particularly, advances in digital technology) and the commitment to research and innovation, which is currently insufficient, must be boosted. There needs to be a new public stimulus to innovation, with an ecosystem of skills and a means of raising the funds essential for developing innovative enterprises. Most importantly, the French population\u2019s savings must be mobilized to that end, while care must be taken that austerity policies curb neither household purchasing power nor business investment activity. Gallois makes the further point that \u201cthe Chinese industrial bulldozer, held in check in the USA by tariffs, is a systemic threat to European industry\u201d, as he lays out a very welcome economic stimulus plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the early days of 2026, many experts joined in condemning the French (and European) economies for falling behind their American and Chinese competitors, if not indeed for a general decline. \u201cFrance is falling off the pace,\u201d these experts essentially argued: productive capacities have weakened; offshoring and the lack of investment in research and development … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[197,1325],"tags":[133,212],"keyword":[1023,1251,1008,944,1046,859,1014,855,1187],"class_list":["post-126662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum-en","category-revue-futuribles-en","tag-economie-et-emploi-en","tag-societe-en","keyword-competitivite-en","keyword-transition-en","keyword-croissance-economique-en","keyword-politique-economique-en","keyword-education-formation-en","keyword-france-en","keyword-innovations-en","keyword-investissements-en","keyword-souverainete-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126690,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126662\/revisions\/126690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126662"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=126662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}