We learned of the future appointment of a High Commissioner for Planning, a title that smacks of industrial Gaullism and the Thirty Glorious Years. Apart from the interest for Emmanuel Macron to offer François Bayrou a way out - or entry - compatible with the exercise of a function of mayor and the discreet charm of nostalgia, it is difficult to see the interest of a Planning Commission, at first glance. Abolished in 2006 by Dominique de Villepin, it was replaced, for the prospective section, by the Strategic Analysis Center, then by France Stratégie. It is not a "left marker" of the program of the National Council of Resistance. It is a legacy of the technocrats of Vichy, who, by the law of April 6, 1941, made adopt the principle of planning with a "ten year plan". De Gaulle, in 1944, took up the idea, created in 1946 the commissariat ex officio and entrusted it to Jean Monnet.
This indicative and non-imperative plan, which has never attempted to replace private initiative, had
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