Has the 35-hour work week really “weighed down” the French economy?
By Eric Heyer Did the Aubry laws introducing the 35-hour work week in France between 1998 and 2002 really make French business less competitive and […]
Economic outlook
Austerity in Europe: a change of course?
By Marion Cochard and Danielle Schweisguth On 29 May, the European Commission sent the members of the European Union its new economic policy recommendations. In these […]
France: why such zeal?
By Marion Cochard and Danielle Schweisguth On 29 May, the European Commission sent the members of the European Union its new economic policy recommendations. As part […]
When Brazil’s youth dream of something besides football…
By Christine Rifflart The rise in public transport prices had barely been in force for two weeks when this lit the fire of revolt and […]
Competitiveness: danger zone!
By Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot, Sabine Le Bayon and Catherine Mathieu The crisis affecting the euro zone is the result of macroeconomic and financial imbalances […]
A fiscal policy to promote structural reform – lessons from the German case
By Eric Heyer “France should copy Germany’s reforms to thrive”, Gerhard Schröder entitled an opinion piece in the Financial Times on 5 June 2013. As […]
The strange forecasts of the European Commission for 2014
By Mathieu Plane The figures for French growth for 2014 published by the European Commission (EC) in its last report in May 2013 appear to […]
What factors have put the brakes on growth since 2010?
By Eric Heyer and Hervé Péléraux At the end of 2012, five years after the start of the crisis, France’s GDP has still not returned […]
In the Netherlands, change is for now!
By Christophe Blot While France has just reaffirmed that it will meet its commitment to reduce its budget deficit to below 3% by 2014 (see […]
France’s Stability Programme: the missing line
By Eric Heyer On April 17, the government presented its Stability Programme for 2013-2017 for the French economy. For the next two years (2013-2014), the government […]