This article comes from Figaro Magazine
LE FIGARO. - You defended liberal ideas in the 1980s. Do you have the impression of having lost this fight in France, while others won elsewhere?
Philippe NEMO. -
I am indeed a liberal, since I think that the prosperity of developed societies has only been established and can only be maintained thanks to institutions allowing intellectual, political and economic freedoms to take full play. The problem is that people understand these fertile but difficult liberal ideas more or less well. If they are less well received in France than elsewhere, it is undoubtedly because National Education and universities have been monopolized by the left for ages. This is a regrettable “cultural exception” for which the country is today paying the price through its chronic incomprehension of economic problems, which significantly complicates the task of those in power.
We are drowning in
deficits and debt
. How…
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