Omnipresent in the economy, as in society, the French state spends much more than its European peers.
This observation has been known for a long time, and the trend has further increased considerably in recent years, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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A staggering figure illustrates this acceleration well: since 2020, public expenditure has represented around 60% of the production of national wealth, the gross domestic product (GDP) when the European average is slightly above 50%.
How to explain this shift of almost 10 points?
A priori, at least if we trust all the satisfaction surveys, not by a much higher efficiency of the French public services...
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To better understand the phenomenon, the former magistrate of the Court of Auditors, François Ecalle, recently made an interesting comparison, item by item, based on 2021 figures from Eurostat, the European Statistics Department, of French expenditure with averages...
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