"France is liberal where it should be statist, and statist where it should be liberal"

A former student of the École normale supérieure, Jean-Loup Bonnamy is an Associate in Philosophy and a specialist in political philosophy.

News is changing quickly. From November to March, pension reform was the government's priority. To the point of resorting to article 49.3 of the Constitution. This reform was not the first on the subject: Balladur reform of 1993, Juppé plan of 1995, Fillon reform in 2003, Sarkozy-Woerth reform in 2010 ... Yet today, faced with the health crisis , we see that the French economy is actually suffering from a much more serious problem: deindustrialisation.

The dire consequences of deindustrialization

This deindustrialization disorganizes our whole society. Our shortage of masks, respirators and ECMO machines, tests, reveals the disintegration of our productive apparatus. At the end of March, France, deindustrialized, carried out 12,000 daily tests while the industrial giant Germany already carried out 80,000, or seven times more than France. Balance sheet? As of April 19,

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