The chalice of austerity, right to the dregs
Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot and Danielle Schweisguth This text summarizes the OFCE’s April 2013 forecasts The macroeconomic and social situation in the euro zone continues […]
Fiscal policy
Family benefits: family business?
By Hélène Périvier Bertrand Fragonard has submitted his report to the Prime Minister; it aims, first, to enhance the redistributive nature of family policy and, […]
Cyprus: Aphrodite to the rescue?
By Céline Antonin and Sandrine Levasseur For two weeks Cyprus sent tremors through the European Union. If the banking crisis that the island is going […]
And what if the austerity budget has succeeded better in France than elsewhere? [1]
By Mathieu Plane Faced with a rapid and explosive deterioration in their public accounts, the industrialized countries, particularly in Europe, have implemented large-scale austerity policies, […]
Zero interest loans: only for the rich?
By Pierre Madec On 1 January 2013, a new version of the zero-interest loan (prêt à taux zéro – PTZ) came into force. It is […]
How to reform the reduction on payroll taxes?
By Mathieu Bunel, Céline Emond, Yannick L’Horty More than 20 billion euros are spent every year by the State to compensate the general exemptions from […]
The death throes of the “Confederation of Europe”?
By Jacques Le Cacheux Will the institutions that the European Union has developed – from the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, which created it and defined […]
France, Germany: The nonworking poor
By Guillaume Allègre “The ways of thinking society, managing it and quantifying it are indissolubly linked” Alain Desrosières, 1940-2013 The subject of working poverty emerged […]
Why France is right to abandon the 3% public déficit target by 2013
By Mathieu Plane Given the statements by the Minister of Economy and Finance, the government seems to have reached a decision to abandon the goal […]
Should family benefits be cut? Should they be taxed?
By Henri Sterdyniak The government has set a target of balancing the public accounts by 2017, which would require cutting public spending by about 60 […]