LE FIGARO.
- What do you think of the conclusion of the Arthuis report on the need to control expenditure?
Daniel COHEN.
- With all due respect to the authors, I found that this report missed the point.
To put it simply, he recommends lowering public spending as a percentage of GDP.
But it has been thirty years since all governments have said more or less the same thing.
I am not sure that general reasoning on this subject adds anything to the debate.
What would be interesting would be to go into the details: where should you spend less?
in health?
education?
The report cites the case of pensions.
Very good, but we all could see last year that the subject was not simple ...
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