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Nicolas Baverez: "The French collapse"

2023-02-19T19:01:15.438Z


CHRONICLE - The new era opened by the war in Ukraine gives the deathblow to France, which is the sick man of Europe.


When a regime collapses, there is a tragicomic moment when everything that could save it is fought and everything that condemns it is promoted and encouraged.

So it went for the Fourth Republic, too weak to win the war or make peace in Algeria, which found itself only in the refusal of any revision of the Constitution of 1946. So it goes today today of the Fifth Republic, which sanctuaries the model of degrowth on credit as well as a hypercentralised, obese and powerless State, which can neither be supported nor adapted.

The pension reform project is exemplary, embolizing the country while failing to rebalance the system by 2030. It symbolizes the paralysis of institutions incapable of managing crises when they were designed for that.

The new era opened by the war in Ukraine revived the United States but gave the deathblow to France which, more than Italy, was the sick man of Europe.

She collapses, arousing despair…

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Source: lefigaro

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