{"id":54482,"date":"2026-10-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=54482"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:05:53","slug":"france-knife-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/france-knife-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"France on a knife-edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"component text\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n\n\n    <div class=\"row\">\n      <div class=\"col  col-lg-8  offset-lg-2\">\n        <h3><b>France is shaking. It is not a visible earthquake, but a deep one: its public finances are cracking and the walls of the old European building are beginning to show similar cracks. The country that for decades symbolised the strength of the continent, the cultural and political engine of the Union, has entered a crisis that goes beyond the numbers. Debt is only the thermometer; the problem, however, is much deeper.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With debt already exceeding 112% of GDP and a persistent deficit of more than 5%, <\/span><b>France has become the pupil reprimanded by Brussels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The European Commission has opened proceedings for fiscal non-compliance, while impatient markets have raised France&#8217;s risk premium to its highest levels since the 2012 crisis. The figures are clear, but behind them lies a message that Europe still does not want to hear: <\/span><b>its welfare model is no longer sustainable<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades, France believed that its wealth was eternal. The welfare state, born after the Second World War as a social shield and symbol of progress, <\/span><b>became such a heavy structure that today it is almost immovable<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The public sector accounts for more than 57% of GDP \u2014 the highest percentage in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/france\/government-spending-to-gdp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OCDE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 and yet the country is growing less than the European average.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bureaucracy, subsidies, <\/span><b>and aid have become the pillars of an economy numbed by debt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insee.fr\/fr\/statistiques\/8597434?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INSEE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, industrial productivity has fallen by 8% in the last decade, while real wages remain stagnant and the tax bill increases. France is now an exhausted power that works like an average country but spends like an empire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>When credit replaces trust<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2025, French public spending exceeds \u20ac1.6 trillion. Interest payments alone will cost more than the defence and health budgets combined. But Paris continues to borrow to keep its state machinery running.\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2025\/03\/03\/patrick-artus-france-is-essentially-suffering-from-low-production-levels_6738738_23.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patrick Artus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an economist at Natixis, summed it up bluntly: <\/span><b>\u2018France can no longer finance its standard of living on credit\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the drama is not exclusively French. It is European. For years, <\/span><b>the European Union has confused stability with prosperity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It imposed fiscal rules to contain spending, but at the same time allowed the European Central Bank to flood the markets with liquidity. The result is a paradox: indebted governments and markets addicted to low interest rates. <\/span><b>When the ECB turns off the tap, the mirage vanishes and reality sets in<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, revealing a continent living beyond its means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>The weary giant of the eurozone<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The French case is more than just a national crisis; it is a warning of systemic collapse. France is the second-largest economy in the eurozone, but its loss of competitiveness has called into question the balance of the European project. Its industry, once the heart of continental production, has relocated. Its young talent is emigrating from Germany or Northern Europe. <\/span><b>Its welfare state, which had been a model of equality, is now a maze of inefficiencies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.banque-france.fr\/en\/governors-interventions\/overcoming-current-challenges-public-services?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"><b>Banque de France<\/b><\/a><b> warns that the cost of debt will eat up a growing share of tax revenues until 2030<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And in Brussels, the debate is no longer whether France will breach fiscal rules, but how many more exceptions will have to be invented to avoid acknowledging the obvious: neither France nor Europe can comply with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>A system without sovereignty<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When France joined the euro, it gave up its most powerful weapon: <\/span><b>the ability to devalue and create currency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Today, Paris cannot adjust its economy without going through Frankfurt&#8217;s scrutiny. The European Central Bank sets the pace and governments dance to its tune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This loss of sovereignty is the great European taboo. States have been reduced to managing their own debt. If they want to grow, they must spend; if they spend, Brussels sanctions them. It is a vicious circle. Every cut reduces consumption and tax revenues, and every stimulus generates more deficit. <\/span><b>What was once an instrument of cooperation is now a straitjacket<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mario Draghi, who saved the euro in 2012, recently warned: \u2018<\/span><b>Europe has created a monetary union without a true economic union<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u2019 And France, the country that imagined the single currency as a tool of continental power, is today the most visible victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>The European reflection<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The French malaise has the same symptoms as the American one: debt, political polarisation and dependence on the central bank. On the other side of the Atlantic, Washington prints money to pay its soldiers. In Europe, <\/span><b>Paris goes into debt to maintain its welfare state<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These are two different strategies to sustain the same model: an economic system that promises more than it can deliver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">France is not, therefore, an isolated case. It is the seismograph of what is to come. If France falters, the eurozone trembles. Its risk premium exceeds 80 basis points, Fitch and Moody&#8217;s are threatening rating downgrades, and investment funds are reducing their exposure to European debt. <\/span><b>The scenario is reminiscent of the days leading up to the 2010 crisis, when no one wanted to admit that the house was starting to burn<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>A continent facing its own mirror<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe finds itself, once again, facing its greatest contradiction: wanting to be an economic power without real political power. Its institutions can fine France, b<\/span><b>ut they cannot bail it out without putting the entire system at risk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Their economies are interdependent, and their governments are prisoners of short-term voting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result is a feeling of general exhaustion. In Paris, <\/span><b>protests over pension reform symbolise the deep unease of a society that wants to preserve rights it can no longer afford<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is not a moral problem, but a structural one. France, like the rest of Europe, lives between nostalgia for its past and fear of its future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>The agony of the European model<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the issue is not debt, but a lack of vision. <\/span><b>The European model was built on the idea that economic integration would automatically lead to prosperity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But without innovation, productivity or sovereignty, the project is wearing thin. France is its most dramatic reflection: too big to fail, too indebted to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unless the foundations of the system are rethought \u2013 a common fiscal policy, real reindustrialisation, a central bank at the service of citizens \u2013 <\/span><b>Europe will condemn itself to slow decline<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">France is today the voice that trembles, but behind it can be heard the murmur of an entire continent. The numbers can be dressed up, but reality cannot. <\/span><b>The euro was born to unite, but it has also chained us together<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And while European leaders debate tenths of a percentage point of deficit, the debt clock keeps ticking, like a precision bomb. 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