The reconquest of the sovereignty of France will figure, we are told, at the heart of the next presidential election.
What could be more urgent, in fact, in an increasingly unstable world, than to regain full control of one's destiny?
Everyone, from left to right, professes their faith.
To judge each other's ability to achieve this, there is little better to tell than the “Covid debt” debate.
Some are strong enough to cancel it with the stroke of a pen, on the grounds that it would be linked to exceptional circumstances and financed in part by the European Central Bank.
They disqualify themselves from the outset. Let us pass on the legal impossibility - the treaties prohibit it - and let us say things simply: not only it is paradoxical to claim to restore the greatness of France by starting by denying its signature, but the should someone decide that we could not afford it.
Because, by dint of budgetary laxity, we have long lost control
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