Industry, the reasons for a shipwreck

LE FIGARO.

- Is the energy crisis we are experiencing likely to accelerate our deindustrialisation?

Nicolas DUFOURCQ.

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If it lasts, yes.

Now, we can say that our nuclear power plants will start up again, and that the abundance of gas of Norwegian, American and Algerian origin, coupled with a reform of the European electricity market, will contribute to a drop in prices at the end of 2023. The problem is competition with the extremely cheap energy that the American and Chinese markets offer today.

We are in a battle of empires.

How did we get there?

If the concept of industrial policy is today praised by the entire political class, it was long considered pejorative?

The French-style industrial policy, with a strong emphasis on planning, had succeeded rather well.

Nuclear, space, aeronautics had shown it.

On the other hand, it had failed in machine tools and consumer electronics.

Was it...

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