Illusions

Today, the influence we can have - not to be confused with radiation is the aura of the past - is that like it or not based on economic and commercial power. We are in this respect far behind Germany. In a way, this way of saying that we are the fourth power is insufficient, because the former is far ahead of the second and third are far behind the first but far ahead of us. Indeed, the GNP of the United States was 7690 billion in 1997, the Japanese and Germany 4772 Poster 2319, is 793 billion dollars more than France. With a GDP of 1.526 trillion dollars, the French are certainly in the fourth row, but after five or six competitors, including the United Kingdom and very close to Italy
Since the beginning of the oil crisis (1973), no French leader has yet had the courage to say where we are. That is, the 1960s are over. If the French want the labor market hiring more, he'll have to have less stringent laws for protection. The demographics that we are an aging society in which young people are often unemployed 18 to 25 years, if not up to 30 years. During the last 3O years, no fundamental reform has been made. The only "reform" were for manners, where the legislature has followed the evolution of society. The sluggishness of the state are considerable.