Has France's competitiveness improved under Emmanuel Macron?

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French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled his France 2030 plan on October 12, 2021. Ludovic Marin Pool / AFP

By: Romain Auzouy

Less than six months from the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, the question of the French president's economic record arises.

Candidate for the "start-up nation" in 2017, Emmanuel Macron has made competitiveness one of his priorities, as recently attested by the France 2030 plan, endowed with 30 billion euros.

Are the results commensurate with the investments?

How to judge this policy at the end of a mandate which will remain marked by the Covid-19 crisis?

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To discuss it

:

- Alexis Karklins-Marchay

, partner of the consulting firm Eight Advisory

- Thibault Laurentjoye

, lecturer in Economics at the University of Alborg in Denmark, member of the Économistes aterrés

- Philippe Crevel

, economist and director of the Cercle de l'Épargne.

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