If he qualifies as an “excellent initiative” the plan to reconquer our productive apparatus, the entrepreneur Quentin Adam regrets a great absentee: the software.
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Interview by Guillaume Grallet
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Un alarmist diagnosis, but remedies still too focused on the past. Here is what many entrepreneurs felt when they discovered the “plan for the reconquest of the productive apparatus: the battle for foreign trade”, a report from the High Commission for Planning, led by François Bayrou. At the beginning of December, the latter drew up a worrying inventory of the competitiveness of our production apparatus. In 2019, our trade deficit was € 32.11 billion against China. It was in deficit of 15.21 billion euros against Germany, and negative of 7.73 billion in our trade with Italy … More worrying, “the export market shares of France at world level have halved, from 6.3% in 1990 to 3% in 2019 …
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name has become synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the call of June 18, established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during his presidency, after his death he became a myth, an ideal of a politician that we find ourselves regretting on the right and the left.
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