29, August
Jon De Lorraine: France is becoming the warning...
France is becoming the warning sign for the entire West. The economy is suffocating under debt, taxes, bureaucracy and regulation. Growth is weak, public spending is out of control, businesses are buried under rules, and the state keeps expanding while delivering less. At the same time, mass immigration has transformed the country faster than the political class was ever willing to admit, while borders, security and integration have become symbols of institutional failure. And now the political landscape is increasingly reduced to a confrontation between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen. That is not a sign of a healthy social democracy, it is the verdict on it. For decades, the French establishment sold the same model: more government, more regulation, more taxes, more migration, more Brussels, and less room for ordinary citizens and entrepreneurs to decide their own future. The result is debt, stagnation, declining competitiveness, social fragmentation and a deep loss of trust. French voters are not becoming "radical" for no reason. They are demanding something the system has refused to offer for years: Borders that mean something. A state that lives within its means. Less bureaucracy. Lower taxes. More freedom to build, invest and create. And political leaders who put their own country first. France does not want another adjustment. It wants a rupture. A real one. To bring the Macron era to an end.