Agora é que se vai ver se Sarkozy é liberal ou não.
A notícia, do Financial Times, é simples: as conslusões de um grupo de estudo sobre a economia francesa, lideradas por um socialista, são: liberalizar, liberalizar, liberalizar. Lendo com atenção aposto que se descobrem umas ideias para Portugal, embora a minha parte favorita seja a das licenças para os taxistas.
Uma versão mais completa pode ser lida aqui. Ou já aqui.
"France must embrace full-scale economic liberalisation if it is to boost its trend growth by 50 per cent in five years and slash unemployment, a high-level presidential review will recommend on Wednesday.
An independent commission chaired by Jacques Attali, the economist and former Socialist government adviser, will propose more than 300 measures to free up retailing and other services, reduce non-wage labour costs and reform public administration.
Furious opposition is expected from those affected by some of the proposals, for instance those calling for the opening up to new entrants of protected professions such as taxi drivers – whose ranks have barely increased in number in Paris in 50 years – or pharmacists .
If all the measures are implemented in the next two years, the review says, unemployment could be cut from 8 per cent to 5 per cent and the number of people living in poverty could be halved within five years. The reforms would also enable France to reduce public spending as a proportion of national output – now the highest in the European Union – by 1 percentage point a year.
The Attali commission, which included 44 business leaders, economists and intellectuals, follows a string of far-reaching economic reviews ordered by successive French governments and then ignored.
The recommendations – many of which have been leaked – have already triggered political opposition, not least from Mr Sarkozy’s own party"
Explicação para a foto: o facto de ainda estar a ler o post. E a Carla Bruni fica melhor do que um taxista parisiense