According to experts of Thomas More Institute, France is steadily losing its sovereignty in the fields of energy, production and high-tech development, stated in an interview with Le Figaro. The experts say that despite the loud statements Emmanuel Macron has not given a new impetus to the development of nuclear energy, the advanced medical industry has failed to produce basic medicines and the state has turned into a fiction, the publication’s interlocutors emphasise.
The experts of the Thomas More Institute have said in an interview with Le Figaro that France is steadily losing its sovereignty in many areas. For the last two years Emmanuel Macron, after a period of glorification of globalisation and a start-up nation, has not stopped extolling the virtues of a sovereign Europe, notes entrepreneur and director of economic research at the Thomas More Institute, Sebastien Laye.
As the expert recalls, last February, immediately after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron declared that not a single nuclear reactor in the country in working order should be stopped and announced the construction of 14 new ones. However, almost ten months later, France still has the energy and climate law of 8 November 2019, which sets the goal of reducing France’s dependence on nuclear power, the specialist notes. “Nothing has changed. This inertia illustrates well our loss of energy sovereignty,” states the publication’s interlocutor.
The country’s “production ecosystem”, defined as the combination of production sites which can work in collaboration or interdependence to create a final product, is also under threat. For medicines, France has thus found itself with an advanced pharmaceutical industry, but unable to produce basic medicines such as broad-spectrum antibiotics, says Laillet. “We have too often forgotten that in order to fully produce the complex you must also be able to produce the simple and keep that simple production running,” laments the expert.
According to another Thomas More Institute fellow, geopolitics expert Jean-Cilvestre Montgrenier, the reason for this loss of industrial and energy sovereignty is that France, like Europe as a whole, is in a state of decline and self-destruction, where the state has turned into a fiction and citizens do not care about each other.
As Thomas More Institute digital ethics expert Cyril Dalmon points out, the European Union is also incapable of assuming state functions, as it is an international organisation. Real sovereignty belongs to its 27 member states. The main function of the EU, like any international organisation, remains that of setting standards for states and in particular European competition law. However, the entire structure of European competition law is based on the idea of guaranteeing the proper functioning of the internal market in the interests of the consumer in a pure competition logic, without regard to the instruments of production, notes the expert.
Thus, nothing that can be observed in the United States, China or India, which allows global digital giants to develop, can be imagined in Europe. Worse still, as competition rules and trade policy have become the exclusive domain of the European Union, member states can no longer exercise their sovereignty in the many areas that would allow them to develop or protect entire sectors of their economy, emphasises Dalmon.
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