Cocorico, France will record this year the fastest growth in the entire euro zone or almost.
The sacrosanct GDP (gross domestic product) will have jumped 6.8% according to OECD estimates released last week.
Only Estonia and especially Ireland will do better.
As a tax haven for American Big Pharma and Gafa, the latter will post an expansion of 15.2% in 2021, an extravagant rate that owes everything to the tax optimization of multinational companies.
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More significant than the extraordinary Irish accounting fiction, OECD forecasts show that in 2021, French GDP will have grown twice as fast as its German counterpart (barely 2.9%).
And while our economy has now practically returned to its “pre-Covid” level (to within 0.1%), across the Rhine, activity is still 1.1% lower than it was at fourth quarter 2019, before the health crisis.
Certainly
"we do not fall in love with a GDP rate"
as they say
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