Foresight No. 5: The Execution Gap, France’s Governance Deficit (full note, PDF)
The full 29-page prospective note: why France has a strategic governance deficit, what four decades of drift have cost, and the evidence-based case for a president who has run large organisations for results. Instant PDF download.
Category: Analysis Notes
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Foresight, prospective note No. 5. Driss EFFINA, PhD. October 2026. PDF, 29 pages, 15 charts and diagrams, 9 tables.
France does not lack diagnoses. It lacks execution. Since 2005 it has not run a single primary budget surplus, and the IMF does not project one before 2031.
Inside the full note:
- Forty years of drift: the diagnosis
- A crisis of execution: the political record since 2017
- Measuring the strategic governance gap
- Promise and delivery
- The cost of drift
- Who governs France, and why the profile matters
- What a business-built president would change
- The strongest objections, answered
- A 100-day and five-year programme sketch
- Scenarios to 2032
- A dashboard of leading indicators
- Implications for policy, investors and businesses
- What to watch
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