Wed 17/04/2024 - 12:00 France Stratégie's 2024 work programme is structured around three key directions: a successful ecological planning; enabling the development of a productive economy moving towards full employment; and leading a renewed public action towards a fairer society.

Mon 22/05/2017 - 12:00 Modern education in advanced capitalist democracies is intended to be the great leveller for the social classes. Indeed, it could be argued the most egalitarian and democratic countries are those where an individual who works hard enough at school can get ahead regardless of their background.

Thu 20/04/2017 - 12:00 Although it was not the focus of much debate during the Brexit campaign, the question of the “bill” related to the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU is a key issue in the exit negotiations following the official trigger on 29 March 2017.

Mon 29/05/2017 - 12:00 The new French President’s success in carrying through the reforms the country needs over the next five years could have consequences for at least a generation, if not more. Of course, more is at stake than simply France’s future: the European Union itself is also in the balance, with the ramifications reaching well beyond Europe’s borders.

Mon 20/10/0217 - 12:00 The Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts (RISE) high level group provides European Commissioner Carlos Moedas with strategic support. RISE published Europe's Future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World earlier this year and presented it to Moedas. It focuses harnessing EU research and innovation to create sustainable and socially inclusive growth for the Union in today’s globalized world.

Tue 05/07/2016 - 12:00 By the time British citizens went to the polls on June 23 to decide on their country’s continued membership in the European Union, there had been no shortage of advice in favor of remaining. Foreign leaders and moral authorities had voiced unambiguous concern about the consequences of an exit, and economists had overwhelmingly warned that leaving the EU would entail significant economic costs.

Mon 11/01/2016 - 12:00 By Jean Pisani-Ferry. In Europe, 2015 began with the far-left Syriza party’s election victory in Greece. It ended with another three elections that attested to increasing political polarization. In Portugal, the Socialist Party formed an alliance with its former archenemy, the Communists. In Poland, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party won enough support to govern on its own. And in Spain, the emergence of Podemos, another new left-wing party, has ended the traditional hegemony of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party on the center left and the Partido Popular on the center right. (In France, moreover, the far-right National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, showed its strength in the first round of December’s regional elections, though it eventually failed to win any).

Tue 09/02/2016 - 12:00 By Jean Pisani-Ferry. If one considers some of today’s main challenges – including climate change, pensions, public debt, and the labor market – an obvious conclusion emerges: It is relatively much worse to be young today than it was a quarter-century ago. Yet in most countries, the generational dimension is remarkably absent from the political debate. Fifty years ago, people spoke often, and loudly, of a “generation gap.” Today, that gap has become invisible. This is bad for the young, for democracy, and for social justice.