Philippe Nemo: “Solidarity is a unilateral system which extorts some to improve the income of others” “I am indeed a liberal, since I think that the prosperity of developed societies has only been established and can only be maintained thanks to institutions allowing intellectual, political and economic freedoms to take full play,” he says. “If they are less well received in France than elsewhere, it is undoubtedly because National Education and universities have been monopolized by the left for ages.

This is a regrettable ‘cultural exception’ for which the country is today paying the price through its chronic incomprehension of economic problems,’ he adds.