Can François Hollande make up for lost time?

Lethargy, wait-and-see attitude, tetany, lost time, action mired in the present, etc. We could go on at length, just by quoting adjectives and comments that were supposed to qualify the way François Hollande has been managing for the last weeks the affairs of the country. May the press conference that he held on Thursday, 16th May, be seen as a direct answer to those among his political opponents and especially among his friends, who were disheartened by the slow pace of decision-making. Can he make out of the second year of his term, a year of political offensive, as he pretends to ? Can he find a way to break up with Europe's languor, as he says he is committed to ? Does he (...)

Tax exile | The exile of a few impoverishes every French

Donors' conference on Mali | Just a matter of means?

Studies provide plenty of evidence that the level of taxation of labor as of wealth is excessive in France. There is not enough place here to demonstrate it again. In the light of the deleterious atmosphere of all against all that is (...)

New Note 4 | On Wednesday, 15th April, an international aid conference for the support and development of Mali will be held in Brussels. This conference, co-chaired by France and the European Union, in the presence of the French (...)

150 billion, to what end? 10 actions to make out of public procurement, a real growth engine

10th anniversary of Gerhard Schröder’s « Agenda 2010 » | Toward a Germanisation of Europe ?

Some months after the Government announced the “Pact for the competitiveness of the French industry” and as a prelude to the “Simplification shock”, the Thomas More Institute and the consulting firm CKS worked together in order to (...)

There are dates which make small historical anniversary that one shall remember. At the beginning of this century, Germany was the “sick man of Europe”. On 14 March 2003, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder launched, against his own (...)

2nd Barometer of François Hollande’s Reforms | Critical Threshold...

From Enlargement to the Rule of Law | Towards a Pan-European Commonwealth

A strange anniversary for François Hollande: a sheer drop in opinion polls, a sluggish growth, a rise of unemployment, plant closures, the Cahuzac affair, a cold Franco-German relationship… One wonders if a worst situation could have (...)

Despite the fact that the economic crisis is seen to be monopolizing the efforts of the European leaders, the course of EU enlargement nonetheless is being kept: on July 1st 2013, Croatia will become the twenty-eighth member of the (...)