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In 2021, the state spent more than a billion euros on consulting services, according to a Senate report, published on March 17, devoted to the use of these private firms by the public authorities.
Since 2018, these expenses have doubled.
In this parliamentary report, a name keeps coming up: McKinsey, an American firm that notably intervened in the vaccination campaign set up by the executive.
The massive use of these companies is a political choice.
It
"induces the idea that the State can no longer do anything alone, and that the civil servants are lazy or are not up to the level"
, considers Caroline Michel-Aguirre, journalist and co-author of
Infiltrators
, a very informed book. on this phenomenon
.
One can understand that the State associates with its interrogations of the cabinets, when the expertise is lacking to him.
But what is the use of the state if it no longer knows how to be effective without calling on it?
Moreover, the taxpayer has what…
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