Le déni français - Sophie Pedder
- In french. First published in 2012.
Why are the French the last Europeans to refuse to face the economic reality? Why do they still believe that their social model can endure without sacrifices, which exasperates so much their neighbors and ridicule them in the eyes of the new powers?
-> Book purchased following the publication of a special issue of "The Economist", in full "French bashing" times. Always interesting to read about France from the inside, written by a foreigner. Known truths, which are not heard and shared by the political leader... or at least to a wider audience... the very one first concerned.
Why are the French the last Europeans to refuse to face the economic reality? Why do they still believe that their social model can endure without sacrifices, which exasperates so much their neighbors and ridicule them in the eyes of the new powers?
-> Book purchased following the publication of a special issue of "The Economist", in full "French bashing" times. Always interesting to read about France from the inside, written by a foreigner. Known truths, which are not heard and shared by the political leader... or at least to a wider audience... the very one first concerned.