Leave our flippin' public companies alone. Every time a public company (i.e. a company where the state is the biggest shareholder) got privatized it costed more to the state than it returned and the services they provided got worse. Stop making the rich richer by advocating for our public companies to be sold of.
In Norway, the best healthcare is 20% or more I think privately owned, while in the uk, the worst healthcare system of the entire developped world including Chile, is 100% owned publicly
From the UK perspective, privatisation has been a total disaster - DO NOT FOLLOW OUR EXAMPLE Particularly for natural monopolies like train companies or water suppliers, prices have skyrocketed and the service provided in return is shambolic. For example, Thames Water - the biggest water supplier in Britain - recently lobbied the regulator for a 33% increase on water bills to help pay for a £100million fine the regulator had just handed to them for consistent sewage spills into the Thames. The only winners of this policy are the ones that own these companies, the public loses out
@@John-ny7jn which is why privatization fallowed by more regulations are straight up beign dumb Like british bigger companies just lobby for smaller companies to get rekt while they remain fine since they can just lobby their way out Thats kinda why regulations 99% of the time backfires
@@HOI4notsoproplayer while I agree the regulatory system needs reform in the UK they still handed out the fine and I would rather have a imperfect regulatory system in place than no system at all The point was making was mainly highlighting that privatisation, particularly in natural monopolies e.g trains, does not lead to lower prices or a better service bc u can’t have increased competition between businesses. In the example I gave while the regulator was lobbied for a bills increase they still handed out the fine. That’s not to mention that Thames Water also pays itself hundreds of millions in dividends each year while also having massive amounts of debt on its books. This is a huge argument against privatisation bc at the end of the day the taxpayer is the one paying more for bills with a worse service and will probably end up footing the bill to bail them out when they go bust. This should act as a a warning to France not to follow our example
the structure in itself is not that bad compared to many other countries and the potential is very good but it has been defunded by the last governments and Attal has been prioritizing on banning Abayas that concern maybe 60 persons in France while refusing to pay teachers betters and recruiting more of them to reduce the number of pupils per class. 30 élèves par classe c'est pas normal
@@iamothemakhnovist20 Je suis d'accord avec toi, certain politque sont completement deconnecté de la réalité de l'éducation nationale en ce moment. C'est un des secteur publique les moins bien financer, plus personne veut devenir prof, ce qui fait que l'EN embauche des profs a peine qualifié pour remplir les rangs. Ma mère étant prof depuis 35 ans, je peux te dire que les classe de COLLEGE avec 35 ELEVES, c'est parfois difficile pour des profs très expériementé, alors j'imagine pas les nouveaux profs, qui se font souvent placer en ZEP durant leurs premières années
The comment section full of French bashing their own country at least gives you right on one point 😅. If there is a thing where French are incredibly good is complaining and being pessimistic. Allez les gars on se ressaisi, on se sort les doigt !
It's crazy, in the comments of ALL the articles or videos that speak well of France, you see French people who aren't happy because we don't say that their country is shit. I'm fed up with this country 😭
@@michelsardou3133 Well at least if France still has a positive image abroad that's one good things. Keeps the rest of the world unaware of the shitshow our politic space looks like, the clowns that lead us mandate after mandate and the industry and public services in shambles. Don't get me wrong, I love my country and I'm both glad and proud to be part of it. I just regret that those in power don't share that feeling. We French are proud and all the more angry when we see what's been done to this beautiful country
@@PhyzalI Tu sais on est pas les seuls à avoir une vie politique de ce type, regardes les US, la GB, l'Espagne la Pologne etc. Et à mon avis ton commentaire reflète aussi la négativité Française, croire que tout va mal tout le temps n'est pas saint. Il y a tout le temps des choses qui vont bien et d'autres mal, c'est la vie. Et en ce qui concerne les politiques, aucun gouvernement n'est sortit de son mandat en étant populaire, même De Gaulle était détesté à la fin alors soyons indulgents, les Français sont durs à gouverner ;)
J’ai arrêté de prendre la video au sérieux quand il à parlé d’éducation et que contrairement à la France les services publiques de la Grande Bretagne n’avaient pas de moyens.
Faut voyager sérieusement … oui il y a un délitement, oui on peut faire mieux. Mais tu n’as pas vu l’état du service public anglais ou des gens meurent de ne pas avoir de rendez-vous médicaux .. quant au reste du monde, regarde les athlètes étrangers notamment US qui sont choqués de faire des visites gynécologiques gratuites et en profitent.
@@invinoveritas-d9b Je ne reconnais plus la France quand je marche dans la rue et je ne vie pas dans les quartiers populaire, je sais pas dans quelle France vous vivez pour moi c'est expatriation.
@@invinoveritas-d9b Quelle nuance ? Le mec a pas parlé des problemes qu'on traverse, ni du fait que les divergences d'intérêts entre les pays d'Europe paralysent des décisions qui auraient pu etre prise. On traverse une crise en matiere de justice , culturelle, et en matiere d'immigration. D'ailleurs parler de ces sujets c'est extrémement difficile dans ce pays. On perd du terrain en Affrique à la fois de part la politique Russe mais aussi car on est de plus en plus antagonisé par des pays d'Affrique ce qui fait qu'on a du aller acheter de l'Uranium ailleurs qu'au Niger. (Et ça il s'est bien gardé d'en parler) L'éducation est en crise actuellement, il y a un tas d'articles sur le sujet. Justement la nuance c'est pas de dire que tout est génial en fait. Que des partis politiques exploitent ce qui va mal dans ce pays ça s'entend mais ça ne veut pas dire qu'il ne faut pas en parler. Au delà de ça, dans la loi immigration de Macron , il était écrit noir sur blanc (je l'ai lu et toi ?) qu'un immigré illégal qui travail poura acceder à la nationalité Française. Un immigré illégal est une personne dont on ne connait rien de son passé , de son identité et de ses potentiels crimes. Une partie d'entres eux brulent leurs carte d'identité pour se faire passer pour des mineurs isolés et avoir une protection car en France les mineurs sont surprotégé meme s'ils commettent des crimes graves. De plus si le travail est la valeure supreme pour devenir Français c'est plutot inquiétant pour l'avenir de notre civilisation et des travailleurs pauvres mit de coté. Notre systeme social atteint ses limites et on a énormément perdu en matiere de pouvoir d'achat. Je parlais à une Thailandaise qui m'a dit qu'elle avait plus de pouvoir d'achat dans son pays que depuis qu'elle vit en France. D'ailleurs ça m'a énormément surprit mais elle m'a meme dit que le travail était moins fatiguant là bas qu'en France. Une société qui a besoin d'une natalité infini pour survivre c'est alarmant si on y réfléchit deux secondes. La majorité des pays surpeuplé ont une qualité de vie inférieure.
@Hypersonic-es6vh Arrete de me faire passer pour un menteur et rensseigne toi. "Régularisation dans des métiers « en tension » Il est désormais possible de régulariser, à titre exceptionnel et temporairement, des travailleurs étrangers (non ressortissants des États membres de l’Union européenne, de l’Espace économique européen ou de la Confédération suisse) exerçant dans des métiers rencontrant des difficultés de recrutement dits métiers « en tension ». Cette disposition s'applique jusqu'au 31 décembre 2026. Cette nouvelle procédure de régularisation n'implique aucune participation obligatoire de l'employeur. Pour rappel, jusqu'à présent, toute procédure de régularisation d'un travailleur étranger impliquait directement l'employeur qui effectuait lui-même la demande d'autorisation de travail. Cette obligation appartient ici au travailleur. Pour se voir délivrer une carte de séjour temporaire « travailleur temporaire » ou « salarié » d'une durée d'un an, le travailleur étranger doit remplir les conditions suivantes : avoir exercé une activité professionnelle salariée figurant dans la liste des métiers en tension durant au moins 12 mois, consécutifs ou non, au cours des 24 derniers mois ; occuper au moment de la demande un emploi relevant de la liste des métiers en tension ; justifier d'une période de résidence ininterrompue d'au moins 3 années en France. Le préfet qui délivre ce titre de séjour prend en compte d'autres éléments tels que : l'insertion sociale et familiale du travailleur étranger ; son respect de l'ordre public ; son intégration à la société française ; son adhésion aux modes de vie et aux valeurs de la société et aux principes de la République française." 80% des OQTF ne sont pas appliqué en France
As a Frenchman, I think you're way over-optimistic. On paper yes, France has everything to be great and all, but that's lacking human stupidity and lack of vision of our political elite.
It's mostly its population that don't understand that they, as workers, are in competition with other workers in the world and mostly in competition with workers inside europe and particularly germany and the social dumping of Schroeder. L'internationale socialiste ça n'existe pas.
just because you don't agree with some politicians, it doesn't mean they're stupid... maybe it's you. Have you ever been a politician, ever participated in government? If not, why do you think you know so much?
@@AaronWatsonGeo France privatized the EDF it became a total failure. They went from being world leading in nuclear technology the barely on the map. The privatization effort that happened during the 1990s did not end well. The rest of europe tried mass privatization for over 30 years and it has not worked, I do not see continuing with the same failed system will somehow be a success this time. This is like when marxist talks me about in theory their ideas will work while in practice it does not work. Its like austerity aswell which lead to the EU moved from the largest economy on earth to the 3rd largest economy on earth thanks to draconian austerity policies during the 2008 financial crisis. People never learn from history that is why it always repeats itself. I am a bit annoyed over pure capitalist people trying to repeat the same environment of the pre 2008 financial crisis environment again. Reality is we need a well balanced system between the private and public sector. The more we move towards one direction the worst the system becomes. Too much government creates a lot of problems and too much privatization creates also a lot of problems. We moved too much towards privatization and it has caused problems it is time for us to reverse those mistakes not double down on them.
In Argentina, we aren't privatizing State owned enterprises these days; we did it in the 1990s and it didn't make a difference for the better. If France's State companies (trains, for example) are relatively efficient, they should keep them that way. IIRC, Germany made the mistake of privatizing too much and is now lagging behind.
It does make a difference for the better. It's a simple fact you xan see all over Europe. Privatization is a huge downgrade for the public / customers. From the failing trains. In GB, worse Post office in Switzerland etc. It is a gift to rhich fools to suck the public dry for a lit worse services. That's it.
Well possible but I doubt that these two things are causally linked. The privatizations are 2+ decades old and the energy and migration crises at most 9 years.
same in France we did that in the 90's 2000's and it did'nt work , everything promissed did'nt happen , prices went up, people got layed off, the companies went bankrupt, and for the most part the main goal of foreign investors was to appropriate the patents on our tech. Strategic assets must not be privatized. So now the state keeps the majority of shares on strategic companies like EDF or SNCF . I get that he's lobbying to get a part of the cake, it's a nice cake.
Remarquable mais tu commets quelques erreurs : - Non, en pratique il n'est pas difficile de licencier en France, il suffit d'avoir des raisons rationnelles. La bourse et la spéculation n'en font pas partie, voilà tout. - SI la France a plus facilement résisté à la crise de 2008 c'est justement grâce à son secteur public. En effet les fonctionnaires ont continué à vivre normalement, à consommer normalement, et donc le secteur privé n'a pas vu tous ses clients ruinés, l'économie a résisté. - Non, les Français n'accepteront JAMAIS de voir ENCORE chuter leurs services publics, c'est totalement exclu. Les privatisations ont été une catastrophe. - Non, la privatisation n'améliore jamais les choses, c'est un mythe libéral. Si nous avons une électricité moins chère c'est parce que EDF était publique. Le secteur public doit juste être géré intelligemment, nuance : un ingénieur ne devient pas idiot parce qu'il travaille pour l'État, mais il est motivé de travailler pour le bien public ! Le secteur privé extrait une marge qui va aux actionnaires : cela n'a pas de sens de dire que cela va faire baisser les coûts ! Nous l'avons vu avec la vente des autoroutes : elles ne sont pas mieux qu'avant, mais coûtent beaucoup plus cher aux utilisateurs. Se soigner aux USA coûte beaucoup plus cher qu'en France, parce que les assurances gagnent de l'argent... Le secteur privé tente toujours, aussi, de rogner sur la qualité, c'est évident. - Les Français en ont marre de devoir dépendre de l'U.E. et ils avaient voté contre le dernier référendum européen - moi j'avais voté pour. Mais Sarkozy a retouché à peine le texte et l'a fait voter par le Parlement : les Français n'ont jamais oublié cette escroquerie... Comme l'U.E. envisage de serrer la vis à cause de la dette, s'il y a des mesures impopulaires... alors TOUT devient possible ! Chez nous c'est culturel : si l'État ne fait pas ce que veux le peuple... alors le peuple renverse l'État par la force. Lors de la période des Gilets Jaunes, c'est passé très très près : c'est le Covid qui a cassé la dynamique, mais la prochaine fois cela ne passera pas. Si jamais il y a un référendum, la France quittera l'U.E., en tout cas quittera la zone euro et reprendra sa liberté économique : ce n'est plus qu'une question de temps... J'ai toujours été contre cette idée, mais le cadre européen ne nous convient pas, nous ne maîtrisons plus les choix économiques, qui sont ultralibéraux. Tu as parlé de l'électricité, mais actuellement nous sommes obligé de la vendre à prix coutant à l'Allemagne. Nous avons investi, mais eux en profitent alors même qu'ils ont fermé leurs centrales ! - Tu as oublié d'autres atouts comme le fait que la France a le second territoire maritime au monde car il y a beaucoup de territoires d'outremer. Notre plus grande frontière est... avec le Brésil ! C'est en Guyane, où se trouve la base aérospatiale de Kourou, parfaitement placée sur l'équateur, et même des gisements d'or et de pétrole importants.
Enfin un commentaire avec du bon sens... la propagande néolibéral pro-IA franchement c'est tellement hors sol ça me dépasse. Je suis comme toi, pour une intégration européenne mais pas une Europe ultralibéral comme c'est le cas aujourd'hui (on remerciera d'aillleurs Thatcher et les Ouest-Allemands gavés de fric américains pour ce tournant dès les années 80s)
Well said; howeever, I still believe in the EU, but France needs to become more assertive when it comes to its interests. No reason why Germany and others can do it and France can't. France must stand up for what it believes. They have the clout and they should use it!
@@dominiqueroche4231 Le gros problème de l'U.E. est que cela reste une création américaine. Jean Monnet a été conseiller personnel de Roosevelt pendant toute la Seconde guerre mondiale. Il en résulte que c'est une entité politiquement très libérale alors que la politique est sensée être décidée à l'échelle nationale à partir des votes des différents citoyens. Dans les réunions (Commission européenne je crois) il y a d'ailleurs un observateur américain ! S'il n'y a pas de réciproque cela n'a pas lieu d'être... Il n'y a aussi AUCUNE préférence communautaire : il suffit de voir les achats d'armes aux USA, par exemple de F-35 alors que dans tous les concours internationaux le Rafale arrive devant ou à égalité avec celui-ci mais au niveau maintenant le F-35 est une catastrophe y compris des mises à jour qui ne viendront jamais. (Sur ces deux avions j'ai placé deux docs très intéressants dans ma playlists "Autre", actuellement ce doit être à la fin.) Le système Patriot est également acheté alors que le Mamba franco-italien est supérieur. Les USA espionnent copieusement les Européens à fin commerciale sans réaction de ces derniers - voir Echelon par exemple. Idem avec l'extraterritorialité du droit américain, qui devrait produire des réactions très vives des Européens - de mémoire c'est plus de 190 milliards d'euros payés par les entreprises européennes ! La "réciproque" commence à peine à se faire contre les entreprises américaines mais c'est limité et je crois seulement du point de vu fiscal, ce qui est la moindre des choses. Je pourrais continuer longtemps...
@@dominiqueroche4231 What the French government "believe" or better said paid to do since the 1980's is to destroy EDF and sell all it's economical viable sectors to private compagnies especially american and german ones, Airbus, Alstom, NEXTER, Ariane Group etc...
@@yannduchnock It's absolutely not an American creation, quite the opposite. There's no American observer in the Commission. There are observers from various countries not in EU at the council of Europe, which is entirely different. Even Russia had an observer there, they have zero effective role in the EU, it's a different level and different institution. The American right would dream of seeing the EU disappear... A majority of what makes European countries strong, and France too, is precisely the EU. Leaving the EU would be catastrophic... Plus, the EU is not something foreign in the distance, it's a union governed by the countries and their populations.
@@FuraIIII true, but France is able to service its debt and has a good track record despite repeated deficits and increasing debts. A bit of a paradox, but somehow they manage to pull it off
From my bias French point of view, the problem is the German lobbying (notably with greenpeace). They impose a price shield on electricity to still at lower cost the French and Sweden production (ARENH). Our electricity bills increased by 2 in one year. Now, german are shaking and it’s the time to France to let’s the german height behind itself. Or german can do the choice of nuclear and stopped their bias critics over this solution that can considerably give a genesis for industries in EU.
I mean, this is only half true. What is true is that the merit-order electricity pricing system that essentially uses the marginal rather than the average price of electricity increases French prices vs what they would be without being attached to the rest of the European grid. HOWEVER, if France were to disconnect, it would be a fair-weather system much like Texas in the US that experienced a devastating blackout some years ago. France does not have enough own spare capacity to deal with extreme summer droughts (drop in production, less cooling water) or extreme winter cold (increase in demand). The move to heat pumps will exacerbate this. So while there is a grain of truth in what you say, in reality the price of electricity in a France disconnected would be higher due to investment in more capacity, or it would need to be a vulnerable system at risk of load shedding in extreme situations.
My fellow French you need to live a bit outside of france to stop constantly complaining when we have so many amazing things we have and need to fight to keep… I have 3 nationalities and can see how much we are lucky…
@@NPJGlobal How the fuck do you think we got there ? That's the opposite in fact, because we complain about everything, we're the most annoying people, and still a thriving country, so in the end, isn't this a recipe for success in it of itself ? We have the right to complain, that's one of the best honors a citizen can have, even if we're hella chaotic. The more people get educated, the more they're aware of stuff, the more they complain. Hell, i learnt english so i can now complain about the rest of the world (nuclear energy for example, should be the go to nowadays, due to climatic changes, and straight up efficiency). Not like every country could do this, but every BIG countries should've been going this route way earlier. People are traumatised by things that happened decades ago due to negligence, and that's mostly why. But today, people shouldn't oppose something that could turn a LOT of co2 emission down while securing enough electricity to progressivly replace machinery functioning using gasoline, by electricity (the massive ones won't happen for decades, but if at least all the smaller ones are replaced, that shit will go a LONG way to have some hope to not make it hotter out there.) Either that, or there will be some more wars for gas, the day we start having only specific countries that can sell it. Put yourself in between people and their confort, and you'll end up with a lot of dead people. Let's hope for this shit to be avoid in like 70-80 years, i'll be dead by then, but i'd rather we don't get to that anyway. Also there are reasons to complain, politicaly, we're in such a chaos part of the country, because NO political party works right now, people are tired of the bullshit, and Macro shoud've NEVER been reelected, that shit just happened because we need to throw the 5th republic away, and all it's flaws, and remove the executive rights to our president, and make it so he can't take a massive shit and ignore the parliament.
@@-zawzaw-8897 But , still he is talking about nuclear energy production, that France has a standard design for PWRs (1:46), and shows a plasma in a tokamak. Afterwards, he shows footage of a toroidal filed coil. He is not talking about fusion research at all.
Honestely, kinda disapointed he didn't mention fusion energy. Sure, it's experimental but if it works, then France is set to be the first nation with fusion nuclear reactors.
@@yoannbelleville7763 No, if ITER is a success it will be an international success, not a french one specifically. Also, ITER is not meant to produce electricity. The first tokamak to produce net electricity in Europe should be DEMO and it will probably not be located in France for fairness.
Le probleme de la FRANCE c’est qu’elle se sous estime et est souvent dans l’autoflagelation, le pessimisme c’est très français... s’il seulement les français savaient ! La france est une grande nation par son histoire, ses batailles, sa culture etc... FRANÇAIS pour une fois rejouissez vous un peu, la france brille de milles feux dans énormément de domaine, leader dans plusieurs domaines. J’ai beaucoup voyager et je peux dire que d’après mon expérience la france a la côte. 😊
Ouais... Je suis français et hyper fier de l'être. Mais je vois très bien les soucis de mon pays. Nos avantages majeurs, on est en train de les perdre à cause de notre propre bêtise.
En réalité faut pas être aveugle non plus si tu remarques tout le monde est fier d'être français juste on a de grandes attentes en tant que grande puissance justement. Moi personnellement je vois le verre à moitié plein mais je trouve ça important que les gens critique le gouvernement le jour où plus personne le critiquera ça voudras dire que le gouvernement aura gagner il aura réussi à soumettre le peuple français alors qu'il fait des choses bien mais n'est clairement pas tout rose ni tout noir. La critique est une part importante dans la remise question même pour les chefs d'états ou les gens qui lisent les commentaires après ça devrait être plus équilibré entre points faible et points fort je te l'accorde.
For broad, de - politicised, rational policy, we need to bring back the indicative economic planning of 1946 - 1980s. A bunch of nerds and experts from a few different fields directed government spending and coordinated production and services between state - owned enterprises and used fiscal and regulatory levers to adapt incentives for private businesses. Politicians had an influence sure, but they weren't fully at the wheel. That's how we recovered and caught up to the UK then the US, became a net exporter, with an large array of competitive, healthy and innovative businesses. Then neoliberalism happened...
As a frenchman, this analysis is wrong on so many levels it's hard to keep track. I will just mention one argument in the very beginning : "France territory has comparable amounts of natural ressources as the US or Argentina" ... Where did you get that ridiculously false statement ? Could also cite "the National rally has a highly engaged minority" while in reality Marine Le Pen scored over 40% at the last presidential election and now would surely win if the election were to happen tomorrow. This video is well intentioned I am sure, but simplification and lack of nuanced and complex analysis make it disinformation, pure and simple. I sincerely wish it were true, some of it could be and deserves attention (on Nuclear, AI and the UE, notably), but overall this analysis is naive and unrealistic.
Hi I'm French too, I will wrote in english so everyone can understand me. On the ressources point he's absolutely not wrong, we got them (I'm speaking about oil, gas, and mineral ressources). The thing is that those ressources are present in location that are difficult to reach and that we are not likely to exploit until decades. Here is why: those mineral ressources are situated on either highly populated region, or in natural conservation places (like in the" Massif central" mountain chain) on mainland France. We also got a lot of ressources in overseas territories, difficult to exploit due to the large wildlife conservations areas but also because of the deep ocean where we don't know yet how to exploit in the best way our ressources. So on paper we got as much ressources than US or Argentina, in fact it's more complicated than that and we won't extract them before a long time.
I am not french, but I just a learn about the CFA franc scam. Now I understand better the staunch support for the settler project in the middle east, and the lack of support for the humanitarian catastrophe. How come they don't teach about King Leopold in schools... Frankly, Europe is quite overrated to put it mildly.
RN does have a highly engaged minority. The rest of the voters actually just liked their program. The "highly engaged" ones are those who, like Trumpists, would vote for them no matter what.
Even minority vote for Marine Le Pen. Mayotte voted RN. So I don't see the relationship between minority and Marine le Pen Vote. And the only racists and criminal in France are from the countries of Muslims....
I'm french , I don't know if it is a joke since I did not watch the entire video. So I will do like it's not. 1- french education system is blowing apart (it was very good before 1968). Which is probably our major problem, since our political figures are ideologists rather than pragmatic. Right, middle and left wings are incompetents, with a gold medal of stupidity for our far left. All my next points are the consequence. 2- french economy is sinking 3 -french stability is about to explode 4- french diplomacy is appalling 5- french health system is sinking 6- french security is declining 7- french identity is undermined
I'd say the medal of stupidity goes to the center and right proning neo liberalism even thought it has proven to be a failure. But this is a right-leaning video after all.
As a French man i can tell you something about the electricity : It may be cheap to produce with the nuclear energy, BUT they don't sell it cheap. Electricity cost less in the US or in Japan for exemple.I looked at my electricity bill and i'm at 0,25164€ each kWh
I was hospitalized several times in the hospitals of the Nice region (French Riviera), it's better than the best private polyclinic in the USA.😂 Frankly, with the exception of the state of Colorado, no other can compete with the Cannes, Nice, and Monaco hospitals.😅
the commentaries reminds me of all the critics french people (and i am french) had against the Paris Olympic games before the Paris Olympic games started.
Man, I am sorry to say it, because I am French, and your video being over optimistic about my country, I should like it and be happy. But well let's say say some of the points you defend in this video do not scratch the surface. Our energy grid, even though highly nuclearized, has huge problems and can certainly not prompt an AI datacenter boom. And all that you are saying about France in Africa is not ageing well at all. France has totally been ousted from the Sahel region and has not anymore access to energy sources there. And, about Algeria, they have just recalled their ambassador in Paris, as relationship between Paris an Algiers reached the bottom after a long and painful degradation. And when it comes to the political situation, it has become a real nightmare since the last elections and the country is expected to be completely gridlocked for the next 3 years...
Agree with you. Nice optimistic video (as a French person, I like it), but the politics are defeating France right now, and many of us have left or are leaving the country. If you are a French person and have done well financially, save yourself before it's too late, and exit the country. Désolé de le dire.
why do so many French see the glass half empty? Regarding Africa for example, Niger still sells France the uranium it needs. It's a major source of Niger's economy. Why would they cut that income off and destabilize their country? Niger supplies only 20% of France's uranium needs. It's biggest suppliers are in Central Asia former Soviet republics. And it can import from Canada as well. Algerian and French relationships have seen better days indeed... BUT that's been like this for years and Algeria is not going to cut it's gas exports to France (or Spain for that matter).... Algeria needs the money for its economy, it can't afford destabilization. France's rapprochement with Morrocco presents greater advantages and a more consistent stable relationship. Algeria can love you on Monday, then hate you on Tuesday... they're not reliable. And as for politics, politics and economy travel on two separate roads. Look at the US government, evenly split, total gridlock... and yet, the economy continues to churn along and grow. I doubt politics will do much to hurt the economy. In fact, Macron has the power of King Maker here, because neither the far right or the far left have absolute majority. The Center has the power, because it can choose to support the right or the left and produce an absolute majority either way. Macron, if he plays it smart can give the far right a little something for a bigger something back, then go to the left and do the same thing. He can play one against the other..... not too many decades ago, Mitterrand was in the same situation and he reigned for 15 years under co-habitation, and France didn't crumble and fall apart like some said it would. You learn to get along and do it for the good of the country. Finally, France is spending billions on AI and that's a GOOOOOD thing, it's the future and French economists know that. France was late in accepting the industrial revolution hundreds of years ago and this allowed England to pull ahead for years. AI is the new revolution and France can't make the same mistake this time. France has taken the European lead on this and is smart to doing so. So, my friend, in closing, look at the glass half full. All nations have their problems, but all nations have their successes. It's your choice as to where you want to expend your energy... on the problems or the success? Which one will bring you the greatest returns? In the end, building on successes tend to eventually solve the problems. It's a great country, this France, has been for hundreds of years and will continue to be for years and years to come. Love it like you do your heritage!
@@dominiqueroche4231 " on the problems or the success? Which one will bring you the greatest returns? I" i mean why choose you have too do both, it's because some see it empty and fix problem while other see it full and improve what's already good, other then that great response and it's good too see how people from other country perceive ours
Sorry, but Niger continues to sell Uranium to France, which is only 18% of France's needs. Most uranium comes from Kasachstan and Uzbekistan, which are very friendly and have economic ties with France. So screw the Sahel... it's not worth losing 1 French soldier! And since the French left, the Sahel is a mess, Wagner group trying establish a foot hold and some of the countries are having coup problems AGAIN !!! Who wants it! They're only trouble. But one thing for certain NONE of those country's residents should be allowed to even visit France or its territories.
I’ve been watching your videos for weeks without looking at the views/subscriber count assuming it was in the millions. I’m surprised you don’t have more you truly deserve it
@@AaronWatsonGeo I think that these negative people that put their comments did their homework, they'd see that you're pretty accurate. But they jump to conclusions and just spit out what they read on social media.... instead of reading actual news. So much seeing the glass half empty.
Who is happy with their current economical/political situation anywhere? I live in France myself (I'm not French, but I love being here), and I do think France has a potential to be an absolute powerhouse economically (and many other ways). However, there are some nihilists in positions of power (and no, I do not put Macron in that group, I think he's far better than what he's given credit for) that can do a lot of damage. The French are very productive, I've seen that myself, they live well overall, and do a lot to enjoy life, but are also very serious, and serious thinkers. And I've never seen so many people who have absolute passions for their own specific interests like I see here. A more conscious and absolute dedication to reason and more objective examination of premises could do a lot. The French generally do believe in reason, quite strongly, but there are some blind spots, but they're fixable.
@@NPJGlobalClairement la balance devrait être plus équilibré entre pessimiste et optimiste les deux sont importants mais c'est vrai qu'on pas si mal placé pour un produit fini selon certaines personnes 😂
French People: "The EU and France are going on the wrong direction". Macron: "Europe and France needs a systemic Reform". French People: "Brother *ewwww* "
@@Thiger_ Jokes aside, I can understand the dislike for Macron by French people, but in the same time he is the only one who has an actual plan for reforming both France and Europe, he has plan b for certain scenarios and he has a strong set of goals. Every other coalition in France has set the goals and when you ask for the specific they have no concrete answer, especially considering that both of the coalitions are aiming at increasing their debt. This is nothing but dangerous especially since they have no clear second plans in case the increased debt backfires. *Edit: there are some parties with actual plans for some probable scenarios, but there are also clear concerns that those plans are not accepted nor seriously discussed in the existing coalitions. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
@@Thiger_ Like most french presidents, Macron has been hated since the 6th month of his presidency and will be missed once he won't be president anymore
@@Dodo-mc2vm Yeah, I get the hate, but I am very genuinely interested in knowing, do the French people realize that one way or another austerity measures are necessary and if the retired people aren't those to endorse then it will be the new generation? I mean this video considers those reforms as just the starting point.
I've heard about the high French percentage of Nuclear power for years, but you saying it was 144GW actually made me look up how much the US and China generate and its way more than that at over 5x (18.6% of all power in US) and 2.5x(4.9% of all power in China). Russia and SK are near French levels too.
yeah, china nuclear power plants area thing to watch out for, less well known than chinese solar and wind, but the first 4th gen nuclear plant is vuilt in china
@@La_baguette_francaise the joke is that fusion is always 50 years away, but if france does it, it deserves to be the leader of europe, if not the world
You missed the meaning of the video. France has the most innovative technolgy in the sector, can have all the raw material needed and has the scalabilty of its system. Basically, they owns the three ingredients to do better than the other in this strategic fields. US, Russia and China are continental-like states, where the huge territory itself has gainmed naturally an advantage to them. France has started without none of it.
We absolutely don't need more cuts in the public services system. We need to take the money where it is (in the pocket of thoses who are gambling with our lives on markets) Thank you but we don't wan't to become the US.
France has a card to play in AI, it is one of the rare country in europe that actually has a competitive AI model with Mistral AI, moreover the Saclay University next to Paris produces among the best mathematicians in the world, that plus easy access to carbon free energy is a great combo to be relevant in that sector.
I salute the entrepreneurs, the positive educated people of France. They are the ones that will always keep France rolling right along. All the negative losers on this site are insignificant and contribute so little to the country.... they have failed in their lives and want to blame everybody else for it.
@@dominiqueroche4231 I don't understand the anti French hate. I have always been in love with French culture. Where do you think it comes from? Is part of this because France is being compared to the world's richest countries? Versus a normal country such as the UK, which France socio-economically and economically outperforms?
@@AnAn___ I think a good portion of it dates to the early 1960's when then President de Gaulle distanced himself from NATO and decided to create his force de frappe so that France could make its own choices on defending itself. The US government did NOT like that. It's funny because nowadays that's exactly what the US wants Europeans to do, spend more money on its own defense. The other portion of it dates to the Iraq war, when France was against the invasion of Iraq. There was a lot of resentment from Americans during that time. I'm sure you've heard of the American Congress even passing a law that changed "French" fries to Freedom fries (I still can't believe these are the minds that run the country, like immature children. First of all, they're called French Fries only in the US. Secondly, they're not even a French invention... they're more Belgian or German. We are just silly kids in the USA.
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C'est ça que je reproche à beaucoup à mon pays : ce manque cruel de confiance en l'avenir. On a tout pour réussir mais une majorité gens se complaisent à critiquer absolument TOUT. Les politiciens bien entendu, les grosses entreprises, les taxes, l'insécurité et j'en passe. Même quand on vend des armes à l'étranger et qu'on devient 2ème exportateur du secteur, ça critique : "marchants de mort", "traitres qui vendent à nos futurs ennemis", etc... Bref, fatiguant.
About electricity. In France, if we replace the nuclear fission power plants by fast breeder power plants, with the stock of 300 000 t of depleted Uranium 238 that we have, we can produce during 2000 years (and more with the stock of plutonium) the energy (fuel+gaz+electricity) consumed in 2021. In Russia the BN-600 fast breeder and in China the CFR fast breeder are connected to the electricity network. In France, Superphenix prototype worked during one year without any problem. In France we don't need any nuclear fusion power plant. Perhaps fast breeder is a solution for other countries. CEA says, "The uranium resources identified today could power a major global nuclear power plant for thousands of years." Académie des sciences says, "Currently unused depleted uranium reserves are considerable. France, for example, currently has a stock of depleted uranium of around 350,000 tonnes, which could provide hundreds of years of electrical energy production [...] even if uranium mining ceases”. France would no longer need uranium mines !
Well, the project to close the loop in nuclear power, the ASTRID project was shoot by the greens in 2019, uranium was low, so no more need they said -___-". It was a dumb decision, that and not developing thorium reactors...
I am French and I think I can say why France still has potential. One of the important things to know is that France is a large exclusive economic zone with all the resources that this entails, very large, the 2nd largest at 11 million km2 and far ahead of Australia and very far ahead of China. These resources will be exploited when robotics makes it possible to exploit the seabed which contains billions of dollars in different metals and rare earths. France is still one of the greatest diplomatic powers in the world and still has its right of veto. Its nuclear triad keeps it safe and will allow it to keep overseas
We may have cheaper energy per KW, but I pay more in "fees" then I do electricity, mandatory "green, save the planet, blame the consumer" fees in france.
France still has some of the lowest energy invoices to it's citizens of any industrialized nation. I am on the west coast of the USA and for my 110 sq meter apartment, I pay on average 224 euros per month.
@@dominiqueroche4231 living in an apartment in France (Brittany) last July the bill was 175€ (2 TVs, 1 washing machine, 1 dryer, 2 computers and no air conditioning) (computer, TV 6 hours a day) and the apartment is 65m²
It's all about energy. It is why energy must be handled by only one provider and no un useful concurrency should occur. Private companies can then access the cheapest energy.
You forgot to mention something about the geography... look again... It is the only country with shores on all the European seas: North Sea, English Channel, Atlantique, Mediterranean. It is also the only country that is both Norther Europe and Southern Europe, including culture and climate.
True, France is both a northern and southern European country--in culture, climate and I would add in architecture (especially the regional architecture). Hopefully it gets the best from both sides most of the time. 🙂
The French debt must be put into perspective. France has a lot of savings,also a big creditors to other countries...., many countries have debts towards France starting with the EU countries.
@@antoine4419 And they are right since money was cheaper for France. It is better to get into debt when money costs nothing, at some point investors pay France to buy its debt 😁(negative rate).
@@antoine4419 THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO SO! SINCE THEY HAVE AGREED TO PAY FOR OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FOR DECADES AND THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO. GERMANY BUY FRENCH ENERGY AT A CHEAP PRICE like all other Europeans thanks to French nuclear power, except that the investments and sacrifices in the nuclear industry were made by the French alone.
Excellent and pretty relevant video. I am amazed to see how much you understood the economics and politics. Pour public système is pretty strong, and help us to have a lot of stability. Less grows during good times, less difficulties during hard ones. Congrats my Friend ❤
Selling public companies who do work for the people, to private companies whose priority is to enrichen mega rich people ? We've already did this with our highways... They've become more and more expensive, and the takeholders are getting richer and richer. No, thanks
I am french and your video is interesting. But you undervalued the problems of France. Look at the Pisa rankings and you will see that the French education system is having big problems. Just an example in your video. However, you highlight several interesting points, such as energy where France will have a huge advantage over its neighbors.
France is already in the drivers seat in the foreign policy of the EU because of a hands off Germany, but France is almost as indebted as Italy and demographically they are possibly declining faster than Germany.
In terms of debt yes. However in terms of demographics France has had higher birthday rates than Germany for decades. The reason being that contrary to Germany where women having children and working is looked down upon. France doesn't have this perception
Honestly, I don't know when did you prepare to do this video, but the challenges you quoted weigh much more than the opportunities. The video would have made some sense 6 years ago. Furthermore, I think the part about France's role in Africa like in Algeria for example or the Sahel were not prepared very well. Algerian French relations are instable since 2019, and Algeria pulled it's ambassador from France (For the 3 time in 3 years) one day before the publication of this video, and French companies are loosing projects there. The same thing is happening in Sahel. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso limited corporation with France in all levels including military corporation (I was surprised you highlighted the military presence in Sahel). In general, France's reputation in Africa is heavily declining. One other important challenge was ignored, is the de-industrialisation as it is the most impacted in Europe. Unfortunately for France, hard times are coming...
Again, why do so many see a glass half empty instead of half full. France's reproachment with Morrocco has great advantages to France than any relationship with Algeria. Algeria is completely unreliable as an ally. They love you on Monday and hate you on Tuesday..... much like the Sahel.... and the French are smart to get out of that region, it's full of instability, dictators , and coups. Those countries just don't know how to be stable. So to hell with them. And Niger will still export uranium to France because it needs the cash to keep its dictatorship from being overtaken by a coup, which seems to happen on a regular basis. France, by the way, gets most of its uranium from Central Asias former Soviet republics. The French aren't losing much with the Sahel.....the Russians can have it! Regarding de-industrialization, now there's where YOU'RE behind the times. France has been on a campaign of revitalizing its industries and promoting "Made in France' for the past 4 years. It's been a big Macron push. all you have to do is look at the unemployment levels. It's at its lowest level in 40 years! So it's the glass half full, sir.
Algeria is completely unreliable ...French are smart to get out of that region, it's full of instability, dictators , and coups. Those countries just don't know how to be stable.
@@dominiqueroche4231Morocco reliable? You forgot their espionage activities? The fact they literally send migrants into Europe every time something happens...Algeria can care for its own. They never had French bases and were pro-Russia and anti-western since its independence. Like most North African states except Morocco (and Egypt). But you lost almost all your African allies who were reliable. Countries like Mali, Burkina Faso and so on...Even the Americans lost Agadez, the crown jewel of all African bases. France was the partner if you wanted to complete a mission in Africa, all American missions in Africa involve France. You lost that. Now you even got Azerbeidzjan in New-Caledonia interfering in your territory like you're some third world country with a weak government apparatus... Compare the influence the Brits have with their former colonies with yours, they even still actively want to stay in the Commonwealth. A great difference. Your former colonies would rather invite Russia and fight alone against t*rrorists... Ouch
@@dominiqueroche4231 Algeria has resources while Morocco no. And Niger cancel operating license of uranium deposit for Orano. So the company has a negative financial statement over this year.
Thank you for this extremely well-rounded educational video. I was wondering if you could make a similar one about Switzerland. Elaborating on their wealth and role in a European context as well as their global geopolitical influence despite their official "neutral" position.
Yes I agree.... too many French do nothing but complain and cry "the sky is falling". The UK and Germany are having bigger problems. I would not trade for either of them. But one thing.... France needs to solve its immigration situation; it must crack down on crime committed and drug use by these groups. Immigration is fine, but it must not be at the expense of France's standard of living. These immigrants come from very poor, 3rd world, or dictatorship nations and we don't want them to bring that to France. That's the only thing I worry about. I don't care if they're black, white, red, yellow, brown, or green, they should come here because they want to make France a better nation and contribute to its success, and to allow them to assimilate to France and become successful themselves. That's all I want.
Only good point about France is nuclear energy. They have too much burocray, taxes and insecurity. And this "high" birth rate are not future start up enterpreneurs, they are decendents of inmigrants and decendents of inmigrants tend to have very low salaries and they tend to not work.
He based all the video on "low electricity cost". but it's not, France have a low peoduction cost, before it integreate the european electricity market. People and company pay the same electricity price in France or Germany, Italy, etc.., the benefits from low production cost is capted by traders or "alternative power suppliers" that do not produce or deliver electricity but buy it under production cost (with regulatory quotas) and sell is on the market, just exchanging contracts for electricity usage and pocketing massive cash amounts. So no, no cheap electricity, no paradise for datacenter and all the reste of this video...
@@virgileduv9789 but this subsidises electricity and production costs for other EU countries and keeps the whole EU strong. That means France plays to its strengths and it helps others and then other countries in the EU do the same for France for its weaknesses, yes its messy but well informed decisions on where the crossover point is for help to other countries having a net positive (for example France giving 5%, 10% or 50% of its cheap energy to other countries, 5% has a net positive, 50% defo wouldnt for example) makes a lot more winners than there would have otherwise been. Yes Germany has problems with energy but it is still by far the most powerful economy in Europe and has many many strengths, having its weaknesses shouldered by others and means its strengths stay strong. This applies to the rest of the countries in the EU.
Nice video, although it's missing a bit of context but it doesn't change the point of the video. As an addition, nuclear development was actually stopped until 2022 and it was even accelerated by Macron himself during his first mandate, switching from nuclear to coal... But even in its comeback, France lost a lot since it used to be at the top of the nuclear research but now is very late compared to Japan. The 6 new centrals will be of 2nd generation while generation IV are on development and generation III are now the norm (later generations are better in terms of production, waste etc.). The price of electricity is actually a bit more expensive: 0.28$ per kilowatt-hour but it was around 0.21$ just 3 years ago, thanks to european legislation :) The one point I'll mark is that EU is actually more of an obstacle than helping anything. We're actually in a very bad economic state because of EU laws etc. Macron does not seek France to be a leader in EU. In fact it's rather the opposite as he's trying to delete France for EU. Yes the country is very generous on public services but here's the catch, they are all in a record horrible shape. It isn't due to lack of money but more to bad management because France has a very high taxation: a little under 50% tax rate on salary, on which u can add about 20% VAT, high housing tax and a higher and higher property tax (and that is just the general taxation). Macron is very funny when he says he's gonna lower the debt as he added about a thousand billions of debt since he's in charge. To give an idea, it's a third of the current debt. Meanwhile the state of the globality of social services is disastrous. So he made historic debts while drowning the social services. Current relationships with Algeria are very bad but can be fixed very quickly if handled well. Same for the Sahel although France has lost a substantial advance to China and Russia in this area due to rather recent diplomatic blunders. Note that a Frexit would most likely end EU so all the movements from London to Paris most likely won't happen if a Frexit happen. Plane industry is indeed working pretty well. I won't discuss LVMH as it is more milking the country than anything else but that is another subject 👀 You can also add the unused potential of the water part of the country as France owns the biggest oceanic empire. Overall a very nice video that exposes that France indeed does possess a very substantial potential. The one critique I could do is that it is all but a potential but I think you said it yourself.
very good analysis. as a french, I would just underline more the main risk for us : our psychology. unfortunately, the culture of compromise is not very well developed, and as you mentioned the negativity is extremely strong. these 2 factors fuel strongly extremisms, which are on the rise, and which are very likely to affect negatively our development.
11:48 : At last, I think this is very true. you are putting into words what journalists and politician in france fail to express or understand (or maybe they are hiding this on purpose)
Your Americanized vision does not align with European values, rooted in France since the French Revolution. The 'flexibilization' of work, the increase in retirement age, and the cuts to the welfare state and social supports are not beneficial. We fight for fewer working hours, fewer years until retirement, more rights and support for workers, the unemployed, pregnant women, the sick, and every citizen. Citizen, an important word in France, in Europe. What is necessary is a European-wide reform of taxes and duties on wealth, inheritances, on the richest individuals, and on corporations, so that they are required to pay an acceptable minimum across Europe, in the countries where they operate. This would prevent them from relocating to tax havens like Ireland or the Cayman Islands... Those who have the most can very well afford to pay, or else what happened in 1789 will happen again... The guillotine is a symbol of the French people.
@iceman55 it's not lfi... it's the values of europe, the foundation. France true culture, true face, true identity...not this bourgeoisie nonsense that feed on the majority. Capitalism is a cancer, it's the follow-up of the monarch, with the bourgeoisie as rulers... those who make millions and billions. Lfi?? Wtf... common sense.
Very good video. No chance for Frexit even Le Pen gave up that idea. You forgot one asset of France it is its vast domain oversea with all the french oversea territories both in America and Indopacific
Agree about all except at 10:00 about growth Growth is a meaningless word. What is the purpose? Growth to benefit who? The problem is not economic growth. It’s growth of inequality of wealth = Tax the super rich Inject the money into public services and innovation
France has the most diversified economy in Europe. Germany's problem for example is it relies heavily on its export market and autos. During recessions, countries import fewer goods, purchase fewer luxury cars. Germany has an energy problem as well, now that it can't import from Russia, energy costs are increasing rapidly. Germany has been in the process of becoming anti nuclear energy and closing its nuclear power plants.... all the while importing electricity from France that is produced by nuclear power... what hypocrisy! The UK has some major problems. Brexit has not been the investment they had hoped for and now with the violence and anti-immigration going on, the fear of civil strife may scare investments away. France's national debt although high at 112% is not as high as the USA or Japan and those countries are doing just fine economically. Foreigners will continue to invest in France. Finally, France politics must stay in the center. Moving toward the socialist Melanchon will eventually bankrupt France. Moving the the far right RN LePen will isolate France and create an exodus of talented brain power, loss of foreign investments, and bring France to its knees. The French may dislike Macron, but look at the record.... unemployment is at its lowest in 40 years, it fared much better than neighboring countries during COVID, and it has made "Made in France" attractive again. He has moved France in the right direction. Change can be challenging and many people don't like it; however, once they realize it has created progress and benefitted them, they adjust and accept. Macron must not be derailed in his quest to reindustrialize the economy. He is doing good. Just too bad the French are usually the last to realize that! Remember, before politics, he was a successful businessman/investor. And that's what a country needs! The French must look at the glass half full and NOT half empty.
The exodus of brain power has already started and keeps increasing for more than 10 years, which is why the left and also the right are actively commissioning people to find ways to tax French people that would try to leave the country. Even if that looks complicated as of now, they'll eventually find a way to get through your wallet because that's the only thing they're good at... Unemployment numbers might be "low" right now but given on more and more people are giving up on working because they literally see no future for themselves here with all the prices going up but not their own income. Macron did nothing good except being the best worst president for France, making almost everything worse than it was 10 years ago. He just has had luck that everything hasn't been crushed yet. And yep, he was a successful employee in the private sector but we definitely CANNOT say the same about his way of running the country. Also about the debt, Japan, unlike France, "owns" its debt thanks to it being owned about 50% by Japanese people whereas for France it's, for the majority, owned by foreign investors that will most likely just sell everything asap or end up ruined because of France's fall. As French people, we indeed tend to be pessimistic but I think we're still kinda realistic.
Yes, low rate and low salaries job, with the destruction of the hospital and the increase of the sucidal rate among our farmers obligated to use worst pesticide. The list is long, how naïve you are.
@@antoine4419 Plus a significant part of working people are doing a lot of versatile jobs, you can see jobs that would previously be occupied by the same person for a long time changing their faces a lot (almost weekly in certain areas). The decline of the public services is due to the fact that we have had more than 30 years of awful management policies and politicians trying to seduce people with unrealistic promises such as infinite growth and infinite wealthy life style that France can no longer afford since way too long. Our debt is just too big at the point and our national budget will only be used for repaying the debt since its owners have had enough of the situation. Experts are projecting a serious decline of the French living standard in the future years but the population is still waiting for the "miracles" of the Left or the Hard Right to solve all of their problems 😂
The notion that French employees are hard to fire is wholly incorrect. They are hard to fire *without cause.* Meaning, if you want to fire a bunch of people for no other reason than to artificially improve financial results, you'll face serious difficulties. And it will be very public. But if an employee is incompetent or royally screws up, then they can be fired. So please stop perpetuating this particular fallacy.
Maybe if the State stopped destroying little entrepreneurs with taxes, the wealth of the country would skyrocket. Unfortunately, that's not the case. For now it's filled with slow bureaucracy, a very complex tax system and is the second highest taxed country on earth relative to GDP. Despite this last fact, it still has one of the worst debt in the EU. Ask any french about the future of France and there's a high chance he will be very pessimistic about it, even though we do have some advantages over other EU nations like nuclear energy.
And on top of that, the public services are collapsing. Ask any worker in the health service what they think about the future, it is not bright. As for national education, it is maybe just slightly better, but still far from being encouraging
A deux doigts de découvrir que l'austérité et la mise en berne des services publics a un effet négatif sur la consommation et donc la production de richesse
Well, I tell you, don't listen to the French people in the comments, we have an addiction, complaining all the time, being pessimistic, and criticizing everything and it's not at all objective. Anyways Vive la France 🇫🇷⚜️
The future of France is to be a leader within Europe. The European Union is the best tool we have to protect our interests against those of other giants like the USA, China, and Russia. The winning strategy is to strengthen our ties with our European partners. Going nationalist and isolationist now would spell the end of most of French advantages. You made a big error regarding Niger though: It's far from critical to our Uranium supply. We get more from Canada and Kazakhstan. Since their Russia-supported military coup, we lost our partnership with Niger, but it's not a big deal at all. We have a lot of reserves and other supply routes for Uranium.
Yeah, because the french are more attached to the public services and the social security, that was the normality in the occidental world, with the great influence of John M. Keynes, before the influence of Milton Friedman in the economy of the West
Being taxed can be something really good because you build a strong resilient society if the investments are being done well (schools, health, culture, defense,…)
@@tiber64 yes, in an ideal world, no one disputes paying a lot of taxes if public services match the investments... but this is far from being the case for hospitals/health, security, legal, infrastructure, education, French public services, all are in decline, an abysmal debt of 3,200 billion euros, unwanted immigration, mass unemployment of around 11%, the question for all French people is: “Where is our money going ??"
@@superresistant0 germany has the 3rd highest rate of patent appliances, is european leader in exports and stronger than france in terms of industry and tech, also being one of the first in europe to become green (= independent of oil) because of wind and solar energy. it has the highest gdp, 2 billion dollars bigger than france in terms of ppp. so stop it lol, germany is and will be the dominant economy in europe by far. just look at the demographics. germany has almost 20 million more people.
We are going to win nothing, for now, we are just enjoying the fall, hoping the pool's floor is not too deep so we are able to not drown. We are losing industrial sectors, our economy is on the way to third world, less and less industrial production. Our real unemployment is really high ( 14-15%) Our population is getting old even with all this extra immigration.
Well prepared and easy to digest analysis, yet one major and essential point is missing: France's wealth has historically been tied to the CFA, a currency control, debt management, and trade system imposed on 14 African countries. However, this is now unraveling, as countries like Turkey have influenced many of these nations to wake up, with most either abandoning or in the process of abandoning this system, signaling a shift in the economic dominance France once held over its former colonies.
Speaking of nuclear, the world's main FUSION reactor is located in France (ITER). It's a massive international science project which is supposed to be a key step to developing industrial fusion reactors by the 2060s or so. And on a side note, I personally see more and more anecdotal evidence of european youth learning french and moving to France to find jobs (people from Italy, Poland and even Germany).
As a European/French citizen, I think you're mostly right about France. We desperately need more economic & social liberalism. We need to get back to work. I'm cautiously optimistic, things inside the EU mostly are moving in the right direction.
Oui mais ça n'arrivera jamais parce que la France tient sur le dos de son système socialiste et c'est pour ça que nos ultra libéraux ne s'y attaquent jamais et au contraire l'optimisent. Ce n'est pas un programme de sécurité social mais de financement du pays, c'est avec les fonctionnaires qu'on contrôle le chômage, c'est avec les excédants qu'on paie la dette. Les américains ne comprendront jamais ce paradoxe.
I'm French, and that video is so ignorant and is forgetting so many things, data and important elements, that it becomes ridiculous. France is absolutely not going to be better in the 2030s, it's going to be worst.
Be carefull about nuclear reactors. You showed images from the iter project wich is a nuclear FUSION reactor. Plus it is experimental. Great video tho.
According to Pisa tests, we have the worst education system. Immigration causes many troubles to France in some suburb. we have one of the highest debth in EU. A high unemployement rate, inflation and a ridiculous GDP growth.
for the moment it is France that pays for the other countries of Europe..a real problem. many countries have debts towards France starting with the countries of the EU.
Leave our flippin' public companies alone. Every time a public company (i.e. a company where the state is the biggest shareholder) got privatized it costed more to the state than it returned and the services they provided got worse. Stop making the rich richer by advocating for our public companies to be sold of.
In Norway, the best healthcare is 20% or more I think privately owned, while in the uk, the worst healthcare system of the entire developped world including Chile, is 100% owned publicly
In brazil the worst healthcare units are all 100% public owned
So is any other service or sector
Mind explaining?
From the UK perspective, privatisation has been a total disaster - DO NOT FOLLOW OUR EXAMPLE
Particularly for natural monopolies like train companies or water suppliers, prices have skyrocketed and the service provided in return is shambolic. For example, Thames Water - the biggest water supplier in Britain - recently lobbied the regulator for a 33% increase on water bills to help pay for a £100million fine the regulator had just handed to them for consistent sewage spills into the Thames. The only winners of this policy are the ones that own these companies, the public loses out
@@John-ny7jn which is why privatization fallowed by more regulations are straight up beign dumb
Like british bigger companies just lobby for smaller companies to get rekt while they remain fine since they can just lobby their way out
Thats kinda why regulations 99% of the time backfires
@@HOI4notsoproplayer while I agree the regulatory system needs reform in the UK they still handed out the fine and I would rather have a imperfect regulatory system in place than no system at all
The point was making was mainly highlighting that privatisation, particularly in natural monopolies e.g trains, does not lead to lower prices or a better service bc u can’t have increased competition between businesses. In the example I gave while the regulator was lobbied for a bills increase they still handed out the fine. That’s not to mention that Thames Water also pays itself hundreds of millions in dividends each year while also having massive amounts of debt on its books. This is a huge argument against privatisation bc at the end of the day the taxpayer is the one paying more for bills with a worse service and will probably end up footing the bill to bail them out when they go bust. This should act as a a warning to France not to follow our example
"the french education system is strong" Nice one
it absolutely is!
the structure in itself is not that bad compared to many other countries and the potential is very good but it has been defunded by the last governments and Attal has been prioritizing on banning Abayas that concern maybe 60 persons in France while refusing to pay teachers betters and recruiting more of them to reduce the number of pupils per class. 30 élèves par classe c'est pas normal
@@iamothemakhnovist20 Je suis d'accord avec toi, certain politque sont completement deconnecté de la réalité de l'éducation nationale en ce moment. C'est un des secteur publique les moins bien financer, plus personne veut devenir prof, ce qui fait que l'EN embauche des profs a peine qualifié pour remplir les rangs. Ma mère étant prof depuis 35 ans, je peux te dire que les classe de COLLEGE avec 35 ELEVES, c'est parfois difficile pour des profs très expériementé, alors j'imagine pas les nouveaux profs, qui se font souvent placer en ZEP durant leurs premières années
@@Zaher74 exactement. Ce problème est partout en France et l'État n'investit pas correctement
I mean, being able to access higher education freely is great. Now the problem is that it's decaying
The comment section full of French bashing their own country at least gives you right on one point 😅.
If there is a thing where French are incredibly good is complaining and being pessimistic.
Allez les gars on se ressaisi, on se sort les doigt !
It's crazy, in the comments of ALL the articles or videos that speak well of France, you see French people who aren't happy because we don't say that their country is shit.
I'm fed up with this country 😭
When I was a child many kids wanted to learn French. Now? Nobody
@@michelsardou3133 Well at least if France still has a positive image abroad that's one good things. Keeps the rest of the world unaware of the shitshow our politic space looks like, the clowns that lead us mandate after mandate and the industry and public services in shambles. Don't get me wrong, I love my country and I'm both glad and proud to be part of it. I just regret that those in power don't share that feeling. We French are proud and all the more angry when we see what's been done to this beautiful country
@@PhyzalI Tu sais on est pas les seuls à avoir une vie politique de ce type, regardes les US, la GB, l'Espagne la Pologne etc.
Et à mon avis ton commentaire reflète aussi la négativité Française, croire que tout va mal tout le temps n'est pas saint.
Il y a tout le temps des choses qui vont bien et d'autres mal, c'est la vie.
Et en ce qui concerne les politiques, aucun gouvernement n'est sortit de son mandat en étant populaire, même De Gaulle était détesté à la fin alors soyons indulgents, les Français sont durs à gouverner ;)
@@joannelg06 quels faits per exemple
This sounds like French propaganda and I'm French
J’ai arrêté de prendre la video au sérieux quand il à parlé d’éducation et que contrairement à la France les services publiques de la Grande Bretagne n’avaient pas de moyens.
@@browbrow74 exactement
Je comprends pas pourquoi ça serai de la propagande ?
Faut voyager sérieusement … oui il y a un délitement, oui on peut faire mieux. Mais tu n’as pas vu l’état du service public anglais ou des gens meurent de ne pas avoir de rendez-vous médicaux .. quant au reste du monde, regarde les athlètes étrangers notamment US qui sont choqués de faire des visites gynécologiques gratuites et en profitent.
@@Dan-bc5td voyager ? Je suis issu d'une famille bi nationale et j'ai visité 7 de pays hors de l'Europe, et une bonne dizaine en Europe
While in France we all agree to the fact that we are utterly doomed, this nice person think we have a bright future.
Les lepénistes et mélenchonistes pensent comme ça. Nuance. Ca les arrange.
@@invinoveritas-d9b Je ne reconnais plus la France quand je marche dans la rue et je ne vie pas dans les quartiers populaire, je sais pas dans quelle France vous vivez pour moi c'est expatriation.
@@invinoveritas-d9b Quelle nuance ? Le mec a pas parlé des problemes qu'on traverse, ni du fait que les divergences d'intérêts entre les pays d'Europe paralysent des décisions qui auraient pu etre prise.
On traverse une crise en matiere de justice , culturelle, et en matiere d'immigration. D'ailleurs parler de ces sujets c'est extrémement difficile dans ce pays.
On perd du terrain en Affrique à la fois de part la politique Russe mais aussi car on est de plus en plus antagonisé par des pays d'Affrique ce qui fait qu'on a du aller acheter de l'Uranium ailleurs qu'au Niger. (Et ça il s'est bien gardé d'en parler)
L'éducation est en crise actuellement, il y a un tas d'articles sur le sujet.
Justement la nuance c'est pas de dire que tout est génial en fait.
Que des partis politiques exploitent ce qui va mal dans ce pays ça s'entend mais ça ne veut pas dire qu'il ne faut pas en parler.
Au delà de ça, dans la loi immigration de Macron , il était écrit noir sur blanc (je l'ai lu et toi ?) qu'un immigré illégal qui travail poura acceder à la nationalité Française.
Un immigré illégal est une personne dont on ne connait rien de son passé , de son identité et de ses potentiels crimes.
Une partie d'entres eux brulent leurs carte d'identité pour se faire passer pour des mineurs isolés et avoir une protection car en France les mineurs sont surprotégé meme s'ils commettent des crimes graves.
De plus si le travail est la valeure supreme pour devenir Français c'est plutot inquiétant pour l'avenir de notre civilisation et des travailleurs pauvres mit de coté.
Notre systeme social atteint ses limites et on a énormément perdu en matiere de pouvoir d'achat. Je parlais à une Thailandaise qui m'a dit qu'elle avait plus de pouvoir d'achat dans son pays que depuis qu'elle vit en France. D'ailleurs ça m'a énormément surprit mais elle m'a meme dit que le travail était moins fatiguant là bas qu'en France.
Une société qui a besoin d'une natalité infini pour survivre c'est alarmant si on y réfléchit deux secondes. La majorité des pays surpeuplé ont une qualité de vie inférieure.
@Hypersonic-es6vh Arrete de me faire passer pour un menteur et rensseigne toi.
"Régularisation dans des métiers « en tension »
Il est désormais possible de régulariser, à titre exceptionnel et temporairement, des travailleurs étrangers (non ressortissants des États membres de l’Union européenne, de l’Espace économique européen ou de la Confédération suisse) exerçant dans des métiers rencontrant des difficultés de recrutement dits métiers « en tension ». Cette disposition s'applique jusqu'au 31 décembre 2026.
Cette nouvelle procédure de régularisation n'implique aucune participation obligatoire de l'employeur. Pour rappel, jusqu'à présent, toute procédure de régularisation d'un travailleur étranger impliquait directement l'employeur qui effectuait lui-même la demande d'autorisation de travail. Cette obligation appartient ici au travailleur.
Pour se voir délivrer une carte de séjour temporaire « travailleur temporaire » ou « salarié » d'une durée d'un an, le travailleur étranger doit remplir les conditions suivantes :
avoir exercé une activité professionnelle salariée figurant dans la liste des métiers en tension durant au moins 12 mois, consécutifs ou non, au cours des 24 derniers mois ;
occuper au moment de la demande un emploi relevant de la liste des métiers en tension ;
justifier d'une période de résidence ininterrompue d'au moins 3 années en France.
Le préfet qui délivre ce titre de séjour prend en compte d'autres éléments tels que :
l'insertion sociale et familiale du travailleur étranger ;
son respect de l'ordre public ;
son intégration à la société française ;
son adhésion aux modes de vie et aux valeurs de la société et aux principes de la République française."
80% des OQTF ne sont pas appliqué en France
@Hypersonic-es6vh Ils ne savent que mentir. Sans ça ils ne peuvent exister.
As a Frenchman, I think you're way over-optimistic. On paper yes, France has everything to be great and all, but that's lacking human stupidity and lack of vision of our political elite.
+1 pour toi ! 😊
It's mostly its population that don't understand that they, as workers, are in competition with other workers in the world and mostly in competition with workers inside europe and particularly germany and the social dumping of Schroeder. L'internationale socialiste ça n'existe pas.
just because you don't agree with some politicians, it doesn't mean they're stupid... maybe it's you. Have you ever been a politician, ever participated in government? If not, why do you think you know so much?
@@leloupdessteppes3228 tu as levé un lièvre 😂
@@dominiqueroche4231if we got smart ones we wouldnt be so high in debt ...so yes we have the most stupid politics of all the world
I wish the best for France. It is amazing country with a beautiful people! ❤🇫🇷Much love from a fan
wtf
Thank you, these commentaries are so negatives it's good to see someone saying something nice at least, have a good day (or evening)!
@@mic498 i'm french men how are french beautiful ?
Arrogant people who think he is the better in the world.
@@virgilius7036 We don't think we are the better in the world... Did you read this comment section? It's quite the opposite lol
I am reminded of a cooking show where the judge told the winner dont think your dish is not bad, it is marginally less bad than your competition
lol 😅😂
@@AaronWatsonGeo France privatized the EDF it became a total failure. They went from being world leading in nuclear technology the barely on the map. The privatization effort that happened during the 1990s did not end well.
The rest of europe tried mass privatization for over 30 years and it has not worked, I do not see continuing with the same failed system will somehow be a success this time. This is like when marxist talks me about in theory their ideas will work while in practice it does not work. Its like austerity aswell which lead to the EU moved from the largest economy on earth to the 3rd largest economy on earth thanks to draconian austerity policies during the 2008 financial crisis. People never learn from history that is why it always repeats itself. I am a bit annoyed over pure capitalist people trying to repeat the same environment of the pre 2008 financial crisis environment again.
Reality is we need a well balanced system between the private and public sector. The more we move towards one direction the worst the system becomes. Too much government creates a lot of problems and too much privatization creates also a lot of problems. We moved too much towards privatization and it has caused problems it is time for us to reverse those mistakes not double down on them.
But this, it can’t happen in France! 😄
In Argentina, we aren't privatizing State owned enterprises these days; we did it in the 1990s and it didn't make a difference for the better. If France's State companies (trains, for example) are relatively efficient, they should keep them that way. IIRC, Germany made the mistake of privatizing too much and is now lagging behind.
It does make a difference for the better. It's a simple fact you xan see all over Europe. Privatization is a huge downgrade for the public / customers. From the failing trains. In GB, worse Post office in Switzerland etc.
It is a gift to rhich fools to suck the public dry for a lit worse services. That's it.
politicians here are privatizing stuff to insider trade the market. there's even VIP trading blockchains for handpicked "top" companies.
Well possible but I doubt that these two things are causally linked.
The privatizations are 2+ decades old and the energy and migration crises at most 9 years.
same in France we did that in the 90's 2000's and it did'nt work , everything promissed did'nt happen , prices went up, people got layed off, the companies went bankrupt, and for the most part the main goal of foreign investors was to appropriate the patents on our tech. Strategic assets must not be privatized. So now the state keeps the majority of shares on strategic companies like EDF or SNCF . I get that he's lobbying to get a part of the cake, it's a nice cake.
Uk privatised lots under thatcher and they went great
Remarquable mais tu commets quelques erreurs :
- Non, en pratique il n'est pas difficile de licencier en France, il suffit d'avoir des raisons rationnelles. La bourse et la spéculation n'en font pas partie, voilà tout.
- SI la France a plus facilement résisté à la crise de 2008 c'est justement grâce à son secteur public. En effet les fonctionnaires ont continué à vivre normalement, à consommer normalement, et donc le secteur privé n'a pas vu tous ses clients ruinés, l'économie a résisté.
- Non, les Français n'accepteront JAMAIS de voir ENCORE chuter leurs services publics, c'est totalement exclu. Les privatisations ont été une catastrophe.
- Non, la privatisation n'améliore jamais les choses, c'est un mythe libéral. Si nous avons une électricité moins chère c'est parce que EDF était publique. Le secteur public doit juste être géré intelligemment, nuance : un ingénieur ne devient pas idiot parce qu'il travaille pour l'État, mais il est motivé de travailler pour le bien public ! Le secteur privé extrait une marge qui va aux actionnaires : cela n'a pas de sens de dire que cela va faire baisser les coûts ! Nous l'avons vu avec la vente des autoroutes : elles ne sont pas mieux qu'avant, mais coûtent beaucoup plus cher aux utilisateurs. Se soigner aux USA coûte beaucoup plus cher qu'en France, parce que les assurances gagnent de l'argent... Le secteur privé tente toujours, aussi, de rogner sur la qualité, c'est évident.
- Les Français en ont marre de devoir dépendre de l'U.E. et ils avaient voté contre le dernier référendum européen - moi j'avais voté pour. Mais Sarkozy a retouché à peine le texte et l'a fait voter par le Parlement : les Français n'ont jamais oublié cette escroquerie... Comme l'U.E. envisage de serrer la vis à cause de la dette, s'il y a des mesures impopulaires... alors TOUT devient possible ! Chez nous c'est culturel : si l'État ne fait pas ce que veux le peuple... alors le peuple renverse l'État par la force. Lors de la période des Gilets Jaunes, c'est passé très très près : c'est le Covid qui a cassé la dynamique, mais la prochaine fois cela ne passera pas. Si jamais il y a un référendum, la France quittera l'U.E., en tout cas quittera la zone euro et reprendra sa liberté économique : ce n'est plus qu'une question de temps... J'ai toujours été contre cette idée, mais le cadre européen ne nous convient pas, nous ne maîtrisons plus les choix économiques, qui sont ultralibéraux. Tu as parlé de l'électricité, mais actuellement nous sommes obligé de la vendre à prix coutant à l'Allemagne. Nous avons investi, mais eux en profitent alors même qu'ils ont fermé leurs centrales !
- Tu as oublié d'autres atouts comme le fait que la France a le second territoire maritime au monde car il y a beaucoup de territoires d'outremer. Notre plus grande frontière est... avec le Brésil ! C'est en Guyane, où se trouve la base aérospatiale de Kourou, parfaitement placée sur l'équateur, et même des gisements d'or et de pétrole importants.
Enfin un commentaire avec du bon sens... la propagande néolibéral pro-IA franchement c'est tellement hors sol ça me dépasse. Je suis comme toi, pour une intégration européenne mais pas une Europe ultralibéral comme c'est le cas aujourd'hui (on remerciera d'aillleurs Thatcher et les Ouest-Allemands gavés de fric américains pour ce tournant dès les années 80s)
Well said; howeever, I still believe in the EU, but France needs to become more assertive when it comes to its interests. No reason why Germany and others can do it and France can't. France must stand up for what it believes. They have the clout and they should use it!
@@dominiqueroche4231 Le gros problème de l'U.E. est que cela reste une création américaine. Jean Monnet a été conseiller personnel de Roosevelt pendant toute la Seconde guerre mondiale. Il en résulte que c'est une entité politiquement très libérale alors que la politique est sensée être décidée à l'échelle nationale à partir des votes des différents citoyens. Dans les réunions (Commission européenne je crois) il y a d'ailleurs un observateur américain ! S'il n'y a pas de réciproque cela n'a pas lieu d'être... Il n'y a aussi AUCUNE préférence communautaire : il suffit de voir les achats d'armes aux USA, par exemple de F-35 alors que dans tous les concours internationaux le Rafale arrive devant ou à égalité avec celui-ci mais au niveau maintenant le F-35 est une catastrophe y compris des mises à jour qui ne viendront jamais. (Sur ces deux avions j'ai placé deux docs très intéressants dans ma playlists "Autre", actuellement ce doit être à la fin.) Le système Patriot est également acheté alors que le Mamba franco-italien est supérieur. Les USA espionnent copieusement les Européens à fin commerciale sans réaction de ces derniers - voir Echelon par exemple. Idem avec l'extraterritorialité du droit américain, qui devrait produire des réactions très vives des Européens - de mémoire c'est plus de 190 milliards d'euros payés par les entreprises européennes ! La "réciproque" commence à peine à se faire contre les entreprises américaines mais c'est limité et je crois seulement du point de vu fiscal, ce qui est la moindre des choses.
Je pourrais continuer longtemps...
@@dominiqueroche4231 What the French government "believe" or better said paid to do since the 1980's is to destroy EDF and sell all it's economical viable sectors to private compagnies especially american and german ones, Airbus, Alstom, NEXTER, Ariane Group etc...
@@yannduchnock It's absolutely not an American creation, quite the opposite.
There's no American observer in the Commission.
There are observers from various countries not in EU at the council of Europe, which is entirely different. Even Russia had an observer there, they have zero effective role in the EU, it's a different level and different institution.
The American right would dream of seeing the EU disappear...
A majority of what makes European countries strong, and France too, is precisely the EU.
Leaving the EU would be catastrophic...
Plus, the EU is not something foreign in the distance, it's a union governed by the countries and their populations.
Italy is drowning in dept, so is france. It has one of the largest deficits in the eu for 2024
France's debt is decreasing rapidly, unlike Italy's
@@FuraIIII true, but France is able to service its debt and has a good track record despite repeated deficits and increasing debts. A bit of a paradox, but somehow they manage to pull it off
@@paralleldimensions_E italy never defaulted, contrary to most countries France included, it serviced its debts even during the world wars
@@canemcaveisn't france credit rating better than Italy?
@@Bostoral yes it is, so?
As a french, i can see there's only french people watching this video
oui oui
I’m American
I am not
A lot of crap said, most of the last decade's debt comes from the cut of companies income tax and fiscal facilities
As a french I would say that the biggest risk for France is the french themselves!
non c'est micron tete de noeud!
@@zcomme z comme zinzin! Macron Hollande Sarkozy Chirac rien ne change, pourquoi? parce que les français sont des blaireaux.
@@zcommeréel, 😂
Le truc c’est que l’on se bat pas pour un gouvernement mais pour le droit de le choisir 🗿
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Le plus gros risque c'est Macron mon gars, on est à deux doigts de se retrouver en dictature (avec le soutien du RN bien entendu)
the fake french
From my bias French point of view, the problem is the German lobbying (notably with greenpeace). They impose a price shield on electricity to still at lower cost the French and Sweden production (ARENH). Our electricity bills increased by 2 in one year. Now, german are shaking and it’s the time to France to let’s the german height behind itself. Or german can do the choice of nuclear and stopped their bias critics over this solution that can considerably give a genesis for industries in EU.
Nuclear fails every cost test.
Totally true but France is not perfect neither, we have a long way before making the country a safe place for creating companies and jobs
@@crhu319 nope
I mean, this is only half true. What is true is that the merit-order electricity pricing system that essentially uses the marginal rather than the average price of electricity increases French prices vs what they would be without being attached to the rest of the European grid. HOWEVER, if France were to disconnect, it would be a fair-weather system much like Texas in the US that experienced a devastating blackout some years ago. France does not have enough own spare capacity to deal with extreme summer droughts (drop in production, less cooling water) or extreme winter cold (increase in demand). The move to heat pumps will exacerbate this. So while there is a grain of truth in what you say, in reality the price of electricity in a France disconnected would be higher due to investment in more capacity, or it would need to be a vulnerable system at risk of load shedding in extreme situations.
Was waiting for this video, hello from France!
Vive la France 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
samee
My fellow French you need to live a bit outside of france to stop constantly complaining when we have so many amazing things we have and need to fight to keep… I have 3 nationalities and can see how much we are lucky…
totally agree, we French need to start being more grateful for what we have!
Sure. LOL
@@NPJGlobal You work together?
@@NPJGlobal How the fuck do you think we got there ? That's the opposite in fact, because we complain about everything, we're the most annoying people, and still a thriving country, so in the end, isn't this a recipe for success in it of itself ?
We have the right to complain, that's one of the best honors a citizen can have, even if we're hella chaotic.
The more people get educated, the more they're aware of stuff, the more they complain. Hell, i learnt english so i can now complain about the rest of the world (nuclear energy for example, should be the go to nowadays, due to climatic changes, and straight up efficiency). Not like every country could do this, but every BIG countries should've been going this route way earlier. People are traumatised by things that happened decades ago due to negligence, and that's mostly why. But today, people shouldn't oppose something that could turn a LOT of co2 emission down while securing enough electricity to progressivly replace machinery functioning using gasoline, by electricity (the massive ones won't happen for decades, but if at least all the smaller ones are replaced, that shit will go a LONG way to have some hope to not make it hotter out there.)
Either that, or there will be some more wars for gas, the day we start having only specific countries that can sell it. Put yourself in between people and their confort, and you'll end up with a lot of dead people.
Let's hope for this shit to be avoid in like 70-80 years, i'll be dead by then, but i'd rather we don't get to that anyway.
Also there are reasons to complain, politicaly, we're in such a chaos part of the country, because NO political party works right now, people are tired of the bullshit, and Macro shoud've NEVER been reelected, that shit just happened because we need to throw the 5th republic away, and all it's flaws, and remove the executive rights to our president, and make it so he can't take a massive shit and ignore the parliament.
Yes but that doesn't mean to take things for granted. We have to fight to keep what we have.
Why are you talking about nuclear power meaning fission and showing images about fusion/ construction of ITER ?
cause there are 2 fusion reactor in construction in france althrough they are still experimentals
@@-zawzaw-8897 But , still he is talking about nuclear energy production, that France has a standard design for PWRs (1:46), and shows a plasma in a tokamak. Afterwards, he shows footage of a toroidal filed coil. He is not talking about fusion research at all.
Oops 😊
Honestely, kinda disapointed he didn't mention fusion energy. Sure, it's experimental but if it works, then France is set to be the first nation with fusion nuclear reactors.
@@yoannbelleville7763 No, if ITER is a success it will be an international success, not a french one specifically. Also, ITER is not meant to produce electricity. The first tokamak to produce net electricity in Europe should be DEMO and it will probably not be located in France for fairness.
Le probleme de la FRANCE c’est qu’elle se sous estime et est souvent dans l’autoflagelation, le pessimisme c’est très français... s’il seulement les français savaient ! La france est une grande nation par son histoire, ses batailles, sa culture etc... FRANÇAIS pour une fois rejouissez vous un peu, la france brille de milles feux dans énormément de domaine, leader dans plusieurs domaines. J’ai beaucoup voyager et je peux dire que d’après mon expérience la france a la côte. 😊
Ouais... Je suis français et hyper fier de l'être. Mais je vois très bien les soucis de mon pays. Nos avantages majeurs, on est en train de les perdre à cause de notre propre bêtise.
En réalité faut pas être aveugle non plus si tu remarques tout le monde est fier d'être français juste on a de grandes attentes en tant que grande puissance justement. Moi personnellement je vois le verre à moitié plein mais je trouve ça important que les gens critique le gouvernement le jour où plus personne le critiquera ça voudras dire que le gouvernement aura gagner il aura réussi à soumettre le peuple français alors qu'il fait des choses bien mais n'est clairement pas tout rose ni tout noir. La critique est une part importante dans la remise question même pour les chefs d'états ou les gens qui lisent les commentaires après ça devrait être plus équilibré entre points faible et points fort je te l'accorde.
For broad, de - politicised, rational policy, we need to bring back the indicative economic planning of 1946 - 1980s.
A bunch of nerds and experts from a few different fields directed government spending and coordinated production and services between state - owned enterprises and used fiscal and regulatory levers to adapt incentives for private businesses. Politicians had an influence sure, but they weren't fully at the wheel.
That's how we recovered and caught up to the UK then the US, became a net exporter, with an large array of competitive, healthy and innovative businesses.
Then neoliberalism happened...
similar to Japanese MITI?
As a frenchman, this analysis is wrong on so many levels it's hard to keep track. I will just mention one argument in the very beginning : "France territory has comparable amounts of natural ressources as the US or Argentina" ... Where did you get that ridiculously false statement ? Could also cite "the National rally has a highly engaged minority" while in reality Marine Le Pen scored over 40% at the last presidential election and now would surely win if the election were to happen tomorrow.
This video is well intentioned I am sure, but simplification and lack of nuanced and complex analysis make it disinformation, pure and simple.
I sincerely wish it were true, some of it could be and deserves attention (on Nuclear, AI and the UE, notably), but overall this analysis is naive and unrealistic.
Lol, RN fan boy.... Le Pen scored 32% and will never will election in france. NEVER! So deal with it and stop spreading B.S. on the iNet
Hi I'm French too, I will wrote in english so everyone can understand me. On the ressources point he's absolutely not wrong, we got them (I'm speaking about oil, gas, and mineral ressources). The thing is that those ressources are present in location that are difficult to reach and that we are not likely to exploit until decades. Here is why: those mineral ressources are situated on either highly populated region, or in natural conservation places (like in the" Massif central" mountain chain) on mainland France. We also got a lot of ressources in overseas territories, difficult to exploit due to the large wildlife conservations areas but also because of the deep ocean where we don't know yet how to exploit in the best way our ressources. So on paper we got as much ressources than US or Argentina, in fact it's more complicated than that and we won't extract them before a long time.
I am not french, but I just a learn about the CFA franc scam. Now I understand better the staunch support for the settler project in the middle east, and the lack of support for the humanitarian catastrophe. How come they don't teach about King Leopold in schools... Frankly, Europe is quite overrated to put it mildly.
RN does have a highly engaged minority. The rest of the voters actually just liked their program. The "highly engaged" ones are those who, like Trumpists, would vote for them no matter what.
Even minority vote for Marine Le Pen.
Mayotte voted RN.
So I don't see the relationship between minority and Marine le Pen Vote.
And the only racists and criminal in France are from the countries of Muslims....
I'm french , I don't know if it is a joke since I did not watch the entire video. So I will do like it's not.
1- french education system is blowing apart (it was very good before 1968). Which is probably our major problem, since our political figures are ideologists rather than pragmatic. Right, middle and left wings are incompetents, with a gold medal of stupidity for our far left. All my next points are the consequence.
2- french economy is sinking
3 -french stability is about to explode
4- french diplomacy is appalling
5- french health system is sinking
6- french security is declining
7- french identity is undermined
I'd say the medal of stupidity goes to the center and right proning neo liberalism even thought it has proven to be a failure. But this is a right-leaning video after all.
As a French man i can tell you something about the electricity : It may be cheap to produce with the nuclear energy, BUT they don't sell it cheap. Electricity cost less in the US or in Japan for exemple.I looked at my electricity bill and i'm at 0,25164€ each kWh
That's only slightly cheaper than the uk.
He talks a lot of shit this presenter.
I was hospitalized several times in the hospitals of the Nice region (French Riviera), it's better than the best private polyclinic in the USA.😂
Frankly, with the exception of the state of Colorado, no other can compete with the Cannes, Nice, and Monaco hospitals.😅
yeah, to live there you need to be rich so of course service is good.
Yeah and still the video advise to privatize this "jewelry" that is public( state-owned) health service in France...
@@francoiszeddam9192 still better in any little cities than in USA when you are poor
Monaco is not France. It's an independent country.
@@wazson3178 he meant French Riviera area maybe.
" like Argentina " hahahahahahah. Yes, the world beacon of economic growth and stability. Hahahahahahahaha.
the commentaries reminds me of all the critics french people (and i am french) had against the Paris Olympic games before the Paris Olympic games started.
this is france - the gayest and worst olympics ever.
Man, I am sorry to say it, because I am French, and your video being over optimistic about my country, I should like it and be happy. But well let's say say some of the points you defend in this video do not scratch the surface. Our energy grid, even though highly nuclearized, has huge problems and can certainly not prompt an AI datacenter boom. And all that you are saying about France in Africa is not ageing well at all. France has totally been ousted from the Sahel region and has not anymore access to energy sources there. And, about Algeria, they have just recalled their ambassador in Paris, as relationship between Paris an Algiers reached the bottom after a long and painful degradation. And when it comes to the political situation, it has become a real nightmare since the last elections and the country is expected to be completely gridlocked for the next 3 years...
Agree with you. Nice optimistic video (as a French person, I like it), but the politics are defeating France right now, and many of us have left or are leaving the country. If you are a French person and have done well financially, save yourself before it's too late, and exit the country. Désolé de le dire.
why do so many French see the glass half empty? Regarding Africa for example, Niger still sells France the uranium it needs. It's a major source of Niger's economy. Why would they cut that income off and destabilize their country? Niger supplies only 20% of France's uranium needs. It's biggest suppliers are in Central Asia former Soviet republics. And it can import from Canada as well. Algerian and French relationships have seen better days indeed... BUT that's been like this for years and Algeria is not going to cut it's gas exports to France (or Spain for that matter).... Algeria needs the money for its economy, it can't afford destabilization. France's rapprochement with Morrocco presents greater advantages and a more consistent stable relationship. Algeria can love you on Monday, then hate you on Tuesday... they're not reliable. And as for politics, politics and economy travel on two separate roads. Look at the US government, evenly split, total gridlock... and yet, the economy continues to churn along and grow. I doubt politics will do much to hurt the economy. In fact, Macron has the power of King Maker here, because neither the far right or the far left have absolute majority. The Center has the power, because it can choose to support the right or the left and produce an absolute majority either way. Macron, if he plays it smart can give the far right a little something for a bigger something back, then go to the left and do the same thing. He can play one against the other..... not too many decades ago, Mitterrand was in the same situation and he reigned for 15 years under co-habitation, and France didn't crumble and fall apart like some said it would. You learn to get along and do it for the good of the country. Finally, France is spending billions on AI and that's a GOOOOOD thing, it's the future and French economists know that. France was late in accepting the industrial revolution hundreds of years ago and this allowed England to pull ahead for years. AI is the new revolution and France can't make the same mistake this time. France has taken the European lead on this and is smart to doing so. So, my friend, in closing, look at the glass half full. All nations have their problems, but all nations have their successes. It's your choice as to where you want to expend your energy... on the problems or the success? Which one will bring you the greatest returns? In the end, building on successes tend to eventually solve the problems. It's a great country, this France, has been for hundreds of years and will continue to be for years and years to come. Love it like you do your heritage!
@@dominiqueroche4231 " on the problems or the success? Which one will bring you the greatest returns? I" i mean why choose you have too do both, it's because some see it empty and fix problem while other see it full and improve what's already good,
other then that great response and it's good too see how people from other country perceive ours
Sorry, but Niger continues to sell Uranium to France, which is only 18% of France's needs. Most uranium comes from Kasachstan and Uzbekistan, which are very friendly and have economic ties with France. So screw the Sahel... it's not worth losing 1 French soldier! And since the French left, the Sahel is a mess, Wagner group trying establish a foot hold and some of the countries are having coup problems AGAIN !!! Who wants it! They're only trouble. But one thing for certain NONE of those country's residents should be allowed to even visit France or its territories.
@@francois3475 nah if you're french and rich you shouldn't leave, it is the best time to be there for the rich
Vive La France 🇫🇷 ❤!
Sometimes it feels like we're not going to see 2030 so imagine hearing that 30's will be ours 💀
I’ve been watching your videos for weeks without looking at the views/subscriber count assuming it was in the millions. I’m surprised you don’t have more you truly deserve it
very kind. thank you!
@@AaronWatsonGeo I think that these negative people that put their comments did their homework, they'd see that you're pretty accurate. But they jump to conclusions and just spit out what they read on social media.... instead of reading actual news. So much seeing the glass half empty.
Bro forgot that our entire civilisation is based on oil
As a french guy it's so weird to hear some good news about France, average french is not happy with the current economical/political situation.
Who is happy with their current economical/political situation anywhere? I live in France myself (I'm not French, but I love being here), and I do think France has a potential to be an absolute powerhouse economically (and many other ways). However, there are some nihilists in positions of power (and no, I do not put Macron in that group, I think he's far better than what he's given credit for) that can do a lot of damage. The French are very productive, I've seen that myself, they live well overall, and do a lot to enjoy life, but are also very serious, and serious thinkers. And I've never seen so many people who have absolute passions for their own specific interests like I see here. A more conscious and absolute dedication to reason and more objective examination of premises could do a lot. The French generally do believe in reason, quite strongly, but there are some blind spots, but they're fixable.
@@RonRobertson-lafrance I totally agree, we French need to start being more grateful for what we have!
Your French your not programmed to be happy.
@@NPJGlobalClairement la balance devrait être plus équilibré entre pessimiste et optimiste les deux sont importants mais c'est vrai qu'on pas si mal placé pour un produit fini selon certaines personnes 😂
When has the average French been happy? Never.
French People: "The EU and France are going on the wrong direction".
Macron: "Europe and France needs a systemic Reform".
French People: "Brother *ewwww* "
As a French person, I think everyone would like a systematic reform, but absolutely not from Macron.
@@Thiger_ Jokes aside, I can understand the dislike for Macron by French people, but in the same time he is the only one who has an actual plan for reforming both France and Europe, he has plan b for certain scenarios and he has a strong set of goals. Every other coalition in France has set the goals and when you ask for the specific they have no concrete answer, especially considering that both of the coalitions are aiming at increasing their debt. This is nothing but dangerous especially since they have no clear second plans in case the increased debt backfires.
*Edit: there are some parties with actual plans for some probable scenarios, but there are also clear concerns that those plans are not accepted nor seriously discussed in the existing coalitions. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
@@Thiger_ Yeah, with the retirement reforms, and the employement market's reforms, the majority of the french actually hate him
@@Thiger_ Like most french presidents, Macron has been hated since the 6th month of his presidency and will be missed once he won't be president anymore
@@Dodo-mc2vm Yeah, I get the hate, but I am very genuinely interested in knowing, do the French people realize that one way or another austerity measures are necessary and if the retired people aren't those to endorse then it will be the new generation?
I mean this video considers those reforms as just the starting point.
I've heard about the high French percentage of Nuclear power for years, but you saying it was 144GW actually made me look up how much the US and China generate and its way more than that at over 5x (18.6% of all power in US) and 2.5x(4.9% of all power in China). Russia and SK are near French levels too.
The first country that come close to what france is doing is Japan
yeah, china nuclear power plants area thing to watch out for, less well known than chinese solar and wind, but the first 4th gen nuclear plant is vuilt in china
@@ostrakos4785but the 2 first fusion reactors are being researched upon and built in france
@@La_baguette_francaise the joke is that fusion is always 50 years away, but if france does it, it deserves to be the leader of europe, if not the world
You missed the meaning of the video. France has the most innovative technolgy in the sector, can have all the raw material needed and has the scalabilty of its system. Basically, they owns the three ingredients to do better than the other in this strategic fields. US, Russia and China are continental-like states, where the huge territory itself has gainmed naturally an advantage to them. France has started without none of it.
Très bonne analyse merci, vous me redonner du courage...
France Rocks! ❤
We absolutely don't need more cuts in the public services system. We need to take the money where it is (in the pocket of thoses who are gambling with our lives on markets)
Thank you but we don't wan't to become the US.
And thank you again but the new argentina president is everything but a guide to follow !
France has a card to play in AI, it is one of the rare country in europe that actually has a competitive AI model with Mistral AI, moreover the Saclay University next to Paris produces among the best mathematicians in the world, that plus easy access to carbon free energy is a great combo to be relevant in that sector.
Loved this video of yours. I am bullish on France too. And bullish on Mistral. Love French culture and cuisine too.
I salute the entrepreneurs, the positive educated people of France. They are the ones that will always keep France rolling right along. All the negative losers on this site are insignificant and contribute so little to the country.... they have failed in their lives and want to blame everybody else for it.
@@dominiqueroche4231
I don't understand the anti French hate. I have always been in love with French culture.
Where do you think it comes from?
Is part of this because France is being compared to the world's richest countries? Versus a normal country such as the UK, which France socio-economically and economically outperforms?
@@AnAn___ I think a good portion of it dates to the early 1960's when then President de Gaulle distanced himself from NATO and decided to create his force de frappe so that France could make its own choices on defending itself. The US government did NOT like that. It's funny because nowadays that's exactly what the US wants Europeans to do, spend more money on its own defense. The other portion of it dates to the Iraq war, when France was against the invasion of Iraq. There was a lot of resentment from Americans during that time. I'm sure you've heard of the American Congress even passing a law that changed "French" fries to Freedom fries (I still can't believe these are the minds that run the country, like immature children. First of all, they're called French Fries only in the US. Secondly, they're not even a French invention... they're more Belgian or German. We are just silly kids in the USA.
Something new kicked in during the Olympics: unity among all French regardless of politics.
Yeah. the gay france olympics was the most unwatched olympics ever. Hopefully it is the last one.
Hey man i'm following you since you made your apparition in the kikuozine, i am wondering if you would be willing to share which vst you are using to make this music because i make music from time to time on fl studio and the sound you used for your lead is so incredibly groovy ! I didn't find anything like it, so i would really appreciate if you could tell me 🙏. Anyways very good music as always ! Keep it up, and this genra seems to do the job the best ! ❤
I'm french, please stop taking drugs, we are a sinking boat
Ca sent le type de gauche
@@invinoveritas-d9b Ah non vraiment pas 😂
I'm French too, and we are doing quite alright compared to a lot of other countries. We just complain more than everyone else
Germany and the UK are out of the game for good.
When the 2 Europeans powerhouses crumble, the next in line gets stronger.
C'est ça que je reproche à beaucoup à mon pays : ce manque cruel de confiance en l'avenir.
On a tout pour réussir mais une majorité gens se complaisent à critiquer absolument TOUT. Les politiciens bien entendu, les grosses entreprises, les taxes, l'insécurité et j'en passe.
Même quand on vend des armes à l'étranger et qu'on devient 2ème exportateur du secteur, ça critique : "marchants de mort", "traitres qui vendent à nos futurs ennemis", etc... Bref, fatiguant.
Very interesting video! Thank you
About electricity.
In France, if we replace the nuclear fission power plants by fast breeder power plants, with the stock of 300 000 t of depleted Uranium 238 that we have, we can produce during 2000 years (and more with the stock of plutonium) the energy (fuel+gaz+electricity) consumed in 2021.
In Russia the BN-600 fast breeder and in China the CFR fast breeder are connected to the electricity network. In France, Superphenix prototype worked during one year without any problem.
In France we don't need any nuclear fusion power plant.
Perhaps fast breeder is a solution for other countries.
CEA says, "The uranium resources identified today could power a major global nuclear power plant for thousands of years."
Académie des sciences says, "Currently unused depleted uranium reserves are considerable. France, for example, currently has a stock of depleted uranium of around 350,000 tonnes, which could provide hundreds of years of electrical energy production [...] even if uranium mining ceases”.
France would no longer need uranium mines !
Well, the project to close the loop in nuclear power, the ASTRID project was shoot by the greens in 2019, uranium was low, so no more need they said -___-". It was a dumb decision, that and not developing thorium reactors...
I am French and I think I can say why France still has potential. One of the important things to know is that France is a large exclusive economic zone with all the resources that this entails, very large, the 2nd largest at 11 million km2 and far ahead of Australia and very far ahead of China. These resources will be exploited when robotics makes it possible to exploit the seabed which contains billions of dollars in different metals and rare earths. France is still one of the greatest diplomatic powers in the world and still has its right of veto. Its nuclear triad keeps it safe and will allow it to keep overseas
We may have cheaper energy per KW, but I pay more in "fees" then I do electricity, mandatory "green, save the planet, blame the consumer" fees in france.
Exactly. Poland household electricty costs are lower than in France per kWh
No, the fees's increses, is mostly provided by the creation of the electricity market, an increse of +127% since 2007, the creation of this market
France still has some of the lowest energy invoices to it's citizens of any industrialized nation. I am on the west coast of the USA and for my 110 sq meter apartment, I pay on average 224 euros per month.
@@PaulBudnycomparing to the revenue ? Don't think so
@@dominiqueroche4231 living in an apartment in France (Brittany) last July the bill was 175€ (2 TVs, 1 washing machine, 1 dryer, 2 computers and no air conditioning) (computer, TV 6 hours a day) and the apartment is 65m²
Nice video you may want to include timestamps in the description to chapter it.
It's all about energy.
It is why energy must be handled by only one provider and no un useful concurrency should occur.
Private companies can then access the cheapest energy.
You forgot to mention something about the geography... look again... It is the only country with shores on all the European seas: North Sea, English Channel, Atlantique, Mediterranean. It is also the only country that is both Norther Europe and Southern Europe, including culture and climate.
True, France is both a northern and southern European country--in culture, climate and I would add in architecture (especially the regional architecture). Hopefully it gets the best from both sides most of the time. 🙂
We don't have shores with all of the european seas, you forgot the Baltic
"If your country becomes African, you will win the 2030s."
- Aaron ''Trudeau 2.0" Watson
Lol. You should watch my Canada video
@@AaronWatsonGeo given the "quality" of your "analysis" i think i'll pass.
Great video
The French debt must be put into perspective.
France has a lot of savings,also a big creditors to other countries...., many countries have debts towards France starting with the EU countries.
Yes, but the french reumburse the debt by.... buying more debts to the BCE, so its useless.
@@antoine4419 And they are right since money was cheaper for France.
It is better to get into debt when money costs nothing, at some point investors pay France to buy its debt 😁(negative rate).
@@maynamar2517 Yes, but instead they want privileges. And one of them was to raise the age of work. The people pay the nullity of the ruling class.
@@antoine4419 THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO SO! SINCE THEY HAVE AGREED TO PAY FOR OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FOR DECADES AND THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO.
GERMANY BUY FRENCH ENERGY AT A CHEAP PRICE like all other Europeans thanks to French nuclear power, except that the investments and sacrifices in the nuclear industry were made by the French alone.
Merci ❤
Excellent and pretty relevant video. I am amazed to see how much you understood the economics and politics.
Pour public système is pretty strong, and help us to have a lot of stability. Less grows during good times, less difficulties during hard ones.
Congrats my Friend ❤
Selling public companies who do work for the people, to private companies whose priority is to enrichen mega rich people ? We've already did this with our highways... They've become more and more expensive, and the takeholders are getting richer and richer. No, thanks
I am french and your video is interesting. But you undervalued the problems of France. Look at the Pisa rankings and you will see that the French education system is having big problems. Just an example in your video.
However, you highlight several interesting points, such as energy where France will have a huge advantage over its neighbors.
Nonsense as a French citizen
Nice ITER footage -- experimental, international FUSION reactor -- to illustrate industrial, domestic FISSION reactors
France is already in the drivers seat in the foreign policy of the EU because of a hands off Germany, but France is almost as indebted as Italy and demographically they are possibly declining faster than Germany.
In terms of debt yes.
However in terms of demographics France has had higher birthday rates than Germany for decades.
The reason being that contrary to Germany where women having children and working is looked down upon.
France doesn't have this perception
@@french907 the birth rate in France is artificial inflated by immigration by the 2030s France won't be ethically French
@@french907 french fertility rates or immigrants, not the same thing
France is doing fine demographically thanks to immigration
@@canemcaveboth, once you have the nationality or permanent residency there is no difference
Incredible work, well done!
I’d like to see one about Colombia. 🇨🇴
Do Sweden and Norway next
Honestly, I don't know when did you prepare to do this video, but the challenges you quoted weigh much more than the opportunities. The video would have made some sense 6 years ago.
Furthermore, I think the part about France's role in Africa like in Algeria for example or the Sahel were not prepared very well. Algerian French relations are instable since 2019, and Algeria pulled it's ambassador from France (For the 3 time in 3 years) one day before the publication of this video, and French companies are loosing projects there.
The same thing is happening in Sahel. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso limited corporation with France in all levels including military corporation (I was surprised you highlighted the military presence in Sahel). In general, France's reputation in Africa is heavily declining.
One other important challenge was ignored, is the de-industrialisation as it is the most impacted in Europe.
Unfortunately for France, hard times are coming...
Again, why do so many see a glass half empty instead of half full. France's reproachment with Morrocco has great advantages to France than any relationship with Algeria. Algeria is completely unreliable as an ally. They love you on Monday and hate you on Tuesday..... much like the Sahel.... and the French are smart to get out of that region, it's full of instability, dictators , and coups. Those countries just don't know how to be stable. So to hell with them. And Niger will still export uranium to France because it needs the cash to keep its dictatorship from being overtaken by a coup, which seems to happen on a regular basis. France, by the way, gets most of its uranium from Central Asias former Soviet republics. The French aren't losing much with the Sahel.....the Russians can have it! Regarding de-industrialization, now there's where YOU'RE behind the times. France has been on a campaign of revitalizing its industries and promoting "Made in France' for the past 4 years. It's been a big Macron push. all you have to do is look at the unemployment levels. It's at its lowest level in 40 years! So it's the glass half full, sir.
Algeria is completely unreliable ...French are smart to get out of that region, it's full of instability, dictators , and coups. Those countries just don't know how to be stable.
In former French colonies of Indochine nobody wants to learn French
@@dominiqueroche4231Morocco reliable? You forgot their espionage activities? The fact they literally send migrants into Europe every time something happens...Algeria can care for its own. They never had French bases and were pro-Russia and anti-western since its independence. Like most North African states except Morocco (and Egypt). But you lost almost all your African allies who were reliable. Countries like Mali, Burkina Faso and so on...Even the Americans lost Agadez, the crown jewel of all African bases. France was the partner if you wanted to complete a mission in Africa, all American missions in Africa involve France. You lost that. Now you even got Azerbeidzjan in New-Caledonia interfering in your territory like you're some third world country with a weak government apparatus... Compare the influence the Brits have with their former colonies with yours, they even still actively want to stay in the Commonwealth. A great difference. Your former colonies would rather invite Russia and fight alone against t*rrorists... Ouch
@@dominiqueroche4231 Algeria has resources while Morocco no. And Niger cancel operating license of uranium deposit for Orano. So the company has a negative financial statement over this year.
Thank you for this extremely well-rounded educational video. I was wondering if you could make a similar one about Switzerland. Elaborating on their wealth and role in a European context as well as their global geopolitical influence despite their official "neutral" position.
what a great and faithful summary of my country! Thank you !
As an educated frenchman living abroad, you're mostly right
Should the french mentality evolve
As a french, we need your videos ❤😂. But I think you forget agriculture Thanks for this proffesionnal & inspiring vid.
Yes I agree.... too many French do nothing but complain and cry "the sky is falling". The UK and Germany are having bigger problems. I would not trade for either of them. But one thing.... France needs to solve its immigration situation; it must crack down on crime committed and drug use by these groups. Immigration is fine, but it must not be at the expense of France's standard of living. These immigrants come from very poor, 3rd world, or dictatorship nations and we don't want them to bring that to France. That's the only thing I worry about. I don't care if they're black, white, red, yellow, brown, or green, they should come here because they want to make France a better nation and contribute to its success, and to allow them to assimilate to France and become successful themselves. That's all I want.
Only good point about France is nuclear energy. They have too much burocray, taxes and insecurity. And this "high" birth rate are not future start up enterpreneurs, they are decendents of inmigrants and decendents of inmigrants tend to have very low salaries and they tend to not work.
As a french myself, I can say that this guy has absolutely no clue about France.
Sorry, this is one of the worst prediction Video I´ve ever seen. Not factual grounded
I mean he explained his reason for believing this
He based all the video on "low electricity cost". but it's not, France have a low peoduction cost, before it integreate the european electricity market.
People and company pay the same electricity price in France or Germany, Italy, etc.., the benefits from low production cost is capted by traders or "alternative power suppliers" that do not produce or deliver electricity but buy it under production cost (with regulatory quotas) and sell is on the market, just exchanging contracts for electricity usage and pocketing massive cash amounts.
So no, no cheap electricity, no paradise for datacenter and all the reste of this video...
@@virgileduv9789 This market is a temporary deal (with an expiration date), and France won't renew it.
@@virgileduv9789 but this subsidises electricity and production costs for other EU countries and keeps the whole EU strong. That means France plays to its strengths and it helps others and then other countries in the EU do the same for France for its weaknesses, yes its messy but well informed decisions on where the crossover point is for help to other countries having a net positive (for example France giving 5%, 10% or 50% of its cheap energy to other countries, 5% has a net positive, 50% defo wouldnt for example) makes a lot more winners than there would have otherwise been.
Yes Germany has problems with energy but it is still by far the most powerful economy in Europe and has many many strengths, having its weaknesses shouldered by others and means its strengths stay strong. This applies to the rest of the countries in the EU.
U have a cristal ball u i di ot?
Nice video, although it's missing a bit of context but it doesn't change the point of the video.
As an addition, nuclear development was actually stopped until 2022 and it was even accelerated by Macron himself during his first mandate, switching from nuclear to coal... But even in its comeback, France lost a lot since it used to be at the top of the nuclear research but now is very late compared to Japan. The 6 new centrals will be of 2nd generation while generation IV are on development and generation III are now the norm (later generations are better in terms of production, waste etc.).
The price of electricity is actually a bit more expensive: 0.28$ per kilowatt-hour but it was around 0.21$ just 3 years ago, thanks to european legislation :)
The one point I'll mark is that EU is actually more of an obstacle than helping anything. We're actually in a very bad economic state because of EU laws etc. Macron does not seek France to be a leader in EU. In fact it's rather the opposite as he's trying to delete France for EU.
Yes the country is very generous on public services but here's the catch, they are all in a record horrible shape. It isn't due to lack of money but more to bad management because France has a very high taxation: a little under 50% tax rate on salary, on which u can add about 20% VAT, high housing tax and a higher and higher property tax (and that is just the general taxation).
Macron is very funny when he says he's gonna lower the debt as he added about a thousand billions of debt since he's in charge. To give an idea, it's a third of the current debt. Meanwhile the state of the globality of social services is disastrous. So he made historic debts while drowning the social services.
Current relationships with Algeria are very bad but can be fixed very quickly if handled well. Same for the Sahel although France has lost a substantial advance to China and Russia in this area due to rather recent diplomatic blunders.
Note that a Frexit would most likely end EU so all the movements from London to Paris most likely won't happen if a Frexit happen.
Plane industry is indeed working pretty well. I won't discuss LVMH as it is more milking the country than anything else but that is another subject 👀
You can also add the unused potential of the water part of the country as France owns the biggest oceanic empire.
Overall a very nice video that exposes that France indeed does possess a very substantial potential. The one critique I could do is that it is all but a potential but I think you said it yourself.
France conquering africa plan - failed … next step
France napoleon conquering europe plan 👍
Vive L'Empereur!
very good analysis. as a french, I would just underline more the main risk for us : our psychology. unfortunately, the culture of compromise is not very well developed, and as you mentioned the negativity is extremely strong. these 2 factors fuel strongly extremisms, which are on the rise, and which are very likely to affect negatively our development.
thanks for the thoughtful comment
11:48 : At last, I think this is very true. you are putting into words what journalists and politician in france fail to express or understand (or maybe they are hiding this on purpose)
Your Americanized vision does not align with European values, rooted in France since the French Revolution. The 'flexibilization' of work, the increase in retirement age, and the cuts to the welfare state and social supports are not beneficial. We fight for fewer working hours, fewer years until retirement, more rights and support for workers, the unemployed, pregnant women, the sick, and every citizen. Citizen, an important word in France, in Europe. What is necessary is a European-wide reform of taxes and duties on wealth, inheritances, on the richest individuals, and on corporations, so that they are required to pay an acceptable minimum across Europe, in the countries where they operate. This would prevent them from relocating to tax havens like Ireland or the Cayman Islands... Those who have the most can very well afford to pay, or else what happened in 1789 will happen again... The guillotine is a symbol of the French people.
manon drop this keyboard and go back to the parliament please
enough of this LFI nonsense
@iceman55 it's not lfi... it's the values of europe, the foundation. France true culture, true face, true identity...not this bourgeoisie nonsense that feed on the majority. Capitalism is a cancer, it's the follow-up of the monarch, with the bourgeoisie as rulers... those who make millions and billions. Lfi?? Wtf... common sense.
Very good video. No chance for Frexit even Le Pen gave up that idea.
You forgot one asset of France it is its vast domain oversea with all the french oversea territories both in America and Indopacific
It is very nice to hear you optimistic advice about france. Usually us french dont see ourselves doing well... a bowl of fresh air. Thanks !
Agree about all except at 10:00 about growth
Growth is a meaningless word.
What is the purpose? Growth to benefit who?
The problem is not economic growth.
It’s growth of inequality of wealth = Tax the super rich
Inject the money into public services and innovation
France has the most diversified economy in Europe. Germany's problem for example is it relies heavily on its export market and autos. During recessions, countries import fewer goods, purchase fewer luxury cars. Germany has an energy problem as well, now that it can't import from Russia, energy costs are increasing rapidly. Germany has been in the process of becoming anti nuclear energy and closing its nuclear power plants.... all the while importing electricity from France that is produced by nuclear power... what hypocrisy! The UK has some major problems. Brexit has not been the investment they had hoped for and now with the violence and anti-immigration going on, the fear of civil strife may scare investments away. France's national debt although high at 112% is not as high as the USA or Japan and those countries are doing just fine economically. Foreigners will continue to invest in France. Finally, France politics must stay in the center. Moving toward the socialist Melanchon will eventually bankrupt France. Moving the the far right RN LePen will isolate France and create an exodus of talented brain power, loss of foreign investments, and bring France to its knees. The French may dislike Macron, but look at the record.... unemployment is at its lowest in 40 years, it fared much better than neighboring countries during COVID, and it has made "Made in France" attractive again. He has moved France in the right direction. Change can be challenging and many people don't like it; however, once they realize it has created progress and benefitted them, they adjust and accept. Macron must not be derailed in his quest to reindustrialize the economy. He is doing good. Just too bad the French are usually the last to realize that! Remember, before politics, he was a successful businessman/investor. And that's what a country needs! The French must look at the glass half full and NOT half empty.
The exodus of brain power has already started and keeps increasing for more than 10 years, which is why the left and also the right are actively commissioning people to find ways to tax French people that would try to leave the country. Even if that looks complicated as of now, they'll eventually find a way to get through your wallet because that's the only thing they're good at... Unemployment numbers might be "low" right now but given on more and more people are giving up on working because they literally see no future for themselves here with all the prices going up but not their own income. Macron did nothing good except being the best worst president for France, making almost everything worse than it was 10 years ago. He just has had luck that everything hasn't been crushed yet. And yep, he was a successful employee in the private sector but we definitely CANNOT say the same about his way of running the country. Also about the debt, Japan, unlike France, "owns" its debt thanks to it being owned about 50% by Japanese people whereas for France it's, for the majority, owned by foreign investors that will most likely just sell everything asap or end up ruined because of France's fall. As French people, we indeed tend to be pessimistic but I think we're still kinda realistic.
What’s attractive about “Made in France”? Enlighten me
@@defendfreedom1390 Literally 😭
Yes, low rate and low salaries job, with the destruction of the hospital and the increase of the sucidal rate among our farmers obligated to use worst pesticide. The list is long, how naïve you are.
@@antoine4419 Plus a significant part of working people are doing a lot of versatile jobs, you can see jobs that would previously be occupied by the same person for a long time changing their faces a lot (almost weekly in certain areas). The decline of the public services is due to the fact that we have had more than 30 years of awful management policies and politicians trying to seduce people with unrealistic promises such as infinite growth and infinite wealthy life style that France can no longer afford since way too long. Our debt is just too big at the point and our national budget will only be used for repaying the debt since its owners have had enough of the situation. Experts are projecting a serious decline of the French living standard in the future years but the population is still waiting for the "miracles" of the Left or the Hard Right to solve all of their problems 😂
The notion that French employees are hard to fire is wholly incorrect. They are hard to fire *without cause.* Meaning, if you want to fire a bunch of people for no other reason than to artificially improve financial results, you'll face serious difficulties. And it will be very public. But if an employee is incompetent or royally screws up, then they can be fired. So please stop perpetuating this particular fallacy.
Would be very nice to hear your takes on Spain❤
todo cosas malas
@@mateosanfitz9625thx for shearing
The only reason why its impossible is the French mentality and the political system that is broken, nobody has the majority so nothing change…
Maybe if the State stopped destroying little entrepreneurs with taxes, the wealth of the country would skyrocket. Unfortunately, that's not the case.
For now it's filled with slow bureaucracy, a very complex tax system and is the second highest taxed country on earth relative to GDP. Despite this last fact, it still has one of the worst debt in the EU. Ask any french about the future of France and there's a high chance he will be very pessimistic about it, even though we do have some advantages over other EU nations like nuclear energy.
Ta photo de profil 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
And on top of that, the public services are collapsing. Ask any worker in the health service what they think about the future, it is not bright. As for national education, it is maybe just slightly better, but still far from being encouraging
you're not quite right here..
A deux doigts de découvrir que l'austérité et la mise en berne des services publics a un effet négatif sur la consommation et donc la production de richesse
Well, I tell you, don't listen to the French people in the comments, we have an addiction, complaining all the time, being pessimistic, and criticizing everything and it's not at all objective. Anyways
Vive la France 🇫🇷⚜️
So, Marcel Paul was the ultimate French polititian.
The future of France is to be a leader within Europe. The European Union is the best tool we have to protect our interests against those of other giants like the USA, China, and Russia. The winning strategy is to strengthen our ties with our European partners. Going nationalist and isolationist now would spell the end of most of French advantages.
You made a big error regarding Niger though: It's far from critical to our Uranium supply. We get more from Canada and Kazakhstan. Since their Russia-supported military coup, we lost our partnership with Niger, but it's not a big deal at all. We have a lot of reserves and other supply routes for Uranium.
"Publics services the most generous of the planet " yes, but the French are the most taxed in the world too.
Yeah, because the french are more attached to the public services and the social security, that was the normality in the occidental world, with the great influence of John M. Keynes, before the influence of Milton Friedman in the economy of the West
Being taxed can be something really good because you build a strong resilient society if the investments are being done well (schools, health, culture, defense,…)
As you said: “France is the most taxed country in the world” (after Denmark) but its public services are the most generous of the planet too
@@tiber64 yes, in an ideal world, no one disputes paying a lot of taxes if public services match the investments... but this is far from being the case for hospitals/health, security, legal, infrastructure, education, French public services, all are in decline, an abysmal debt of 3,200 billion euros, unwanted immigration, mass unemployment of around 11%, the question for all French people is: “Where is our money going ??"
to much tax for this crap
2:20 he first announced closing 14 nuclear reactors in late 2018, for 2035. He later went backwards when the war with russia started.
Euh! I'm French and i live in France i love my country.... but. ...are you ok ? No fever ? 😅
@@superresistant0 germany has the 3rd highest rate of patent appliances, is european leader in exports and stronger than france in terms of industry and tech, also being one of the first in europe to become green (= independent of oil) because of wind and solar energy. it has the highest gdp, 2 billion dollars bigger than france in terms of ppp. so stop it lol, germany is and will be the dominant economy in europe by far. just look at the demographics. germany has almost 20 million more people.
we lack the most important thing, good leaders that can use what we have. And I don't see it getting better any time soon.
We are going to win nothing, for now, we are just enjoying the fall, hoping the pool's floor is not too deep so we are able to not drown.
We are losing industrial sectors, our economy is on the way to third world, less and less industrial production.
Our real unemployment is really high ( 14-15%)
Our population is getting old even with all this extra immigration.
you are sooo freaking wrong !!! Look around man. It is NOT gloom, so get out of your sick state of mind. You give up too quickly.
Le fameux patriote qui croit en son pays...
Well prepared and easy to digest analysis, yet one major and essential point is missing: France's wealth has historically been tied to the CFA, a currency control, debt management, and trade system imposed on 14 African countries. However, this is now unraveling, as countries like Turkey have influenced many of these nations to wake up, with most either abandoning or in the process of abandoning this system, signaling a shift in the economic dominance France once held over its former colonies.
France is going downhill but not as much as the uk or Ireland or Germany
No... in your Dreams 😂
Speaking of nuclear, the world's main FUSION reactor is located in France (ITER). It's a massive international science project which is supposed to be a key step to developing industrial fusion reactors by the 2060s or so. And on a side note, I personally see more and more anecdotal evidence of european youth learning french and moving to France to find jobs (people from Italy, Poland and even Germany).
Will my frenchie dream come true?
As a French, this video was an absolute masterclass
You're very interesting
As a European/French citizen, I think you're mostly right about France. We desperately need more economic & social liberalism. We need to get back to work. I'm cautiously optimistic, things inside the EU mostly are moving in the right direction.
Oh hell no !
We need to get rid of economic & social liberalism and reconsolidate our public institutions before their collapse.
"Get back to work", yeah sure, after all we just have to cross the street, right ?
Oui mais ça n'arrivera jamais parce que la France tient sur le dos de son système socialiste et c'est pour ça que nos ultra libéraux ne s'y attaquent jamais et au contraire l'optimisent. Ce n'est pas un programme de sécurité social mais de financement du pays, c'est avec les fonctionnaires qu'on contrôle le chômage, c'est avec les excédants qu'on paie la dette. Les américains ne comprendront jamais ce paradoxe.
I'm French, and that video is so ignorant and is forgetting so many things, data and important elements, that it becomes ridiculous. France is absolutely not going to be better in the 2030s, it's going to be worst.
Ah yes. Just what i needed. Time for my French ego to be fed a video about why i am the best
What’s up with that haircut?
That is a very convincing argument. I would say a BOLD argument.
Have something against tintin?
Be carefull about nuclear reactors. You showed images from the iter project wich is a nuclear FUSION reactor. Plus it is experimental. Great video tho.
According to Pisa tests, we have the worst education system. Immigration causes many troubles to France in some suburb. we have one of the highest debth in EU. A high unemployement rate, inflation and a ridiculous GDP growth.
for the moment it is France that pays for the other countries of Europe..a real problem.
many countries have debts towards France starting with the countries of the EU.