Competitiveness of firms | What shall be done?

New Meeting of the Thomas More Institute | Wednesday 12 June 2013, from 8:30 am to 10 am | Restaurant le Procope, Paris | Debate in French

From the competitiveness pact to his most recent press conference, including the launch of the BPI and the convention on entrepreneurship, François Hollande strives to disseminate his new credo: everything has been made to create the long awaited “shock of Competitiveness”… However, the current situation is grim: zero growth, rising unemployment, stalled business investment, loss of market share… Though the over taxation and the over regulation, aren’t we destroying the French entrepreneurship? 

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Can François Hollande make up for lost time?

Tax exile | The exile of a few impoverishes every French

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 (...)

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 (...)

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

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

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 (...)

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 (...)