Il existe aujourd’hui, un peu partout en Europe, une panique fran\u00e7aise en train de monter. C’est un \u00e9trange ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne, qui rythme en contrepoint la m\u00e9lop\u00e9e habituelle une m\u00e9lop\u00e9e sans fin sur le d\u00e9clin fran\u00e7ais, sur la France, nation d\u00e9pass\u00e9e, sur la France qui ne compte plus en Europe, ponctu\u00e9e brutalement d’alertes extraordinaires sur le th\u00e8me : mais que va devenir l’Europe si la France fait ce qu’elle s’appr\u00eate \u00e0 faire, ou ce qu’on croit qu’elle s’appr\u00eate \u00e0 faire ? Que va devenir l’Europe si la France devient ce qu’elle est ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tIl y avait eu ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne avec le r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum de mai 2005. Aujourd’hui, il est plus fort que jamais, avec l’\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tDeux exemples :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t A Bruxelles, le journal Le Soir<\/em>, parfait miroir de la bourgeoisie louis-philipparde et lib\u00e9rale de cet \u00e9trange pays \u00e0 la fois \u00e9mouvant et peu exaltant (dito<\/em>, la Belgique, pas la France), prend position dans l’\u00e9lection fran\u00e7aise. C’est la deuxi\u00e8me fois que Le Soir<\/em> prend position dans une \u00e9lection \u00e9trang\u00e8re, et cela marque effectivement et involontairement la hi\u00e9rarchie des pays qui comptent (si l’on comprend bien : les USA et la France). La r\u00e9dactrice en chef du journal \u00e9crit le 14 avril<\/a> : \u00abJusque-l\u00e0, nous ne l’avions pas \u00e9crit. Parce qu’il demeure exceptionnel que Le Soir prenne position dans une \u00e9lection, comme il l’avait fait pour soutenir John Kerry face \u00e0 George Bush aux Etats-Unis.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbCette fois pourtant, on ne peut plus rester sans le dire. Oui, Nicolas Sarkozy est dangereux<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t A Londres, dans le Guardian <\/em>, Will Hutton s’alarme de la m\u00eame situation du soi-disant virage \u00e0 droite de la France, qu’il d\u00e9crit implicitement comme \u00e9tant dans un \u00e9tat \u00e9pouvantable (la m\u00e9lop\u00e9e France nation d\u00e9pass\u00e9e, qui ne compte plus, etc.), et dont, pourtant, le choix de son nouveau pr\u00e9sident est promis \u00e0 bouleverser l’Europe. Toujours cet \u00e9trange paradoxe d’un pays sans importance \u00e0 cause de son d\u00e9clin et de son pass\u00e9isme, et au choix politique duquel le reste du monde (de l’Europe) est suspendu pour conna\u00eetre son propre destin. Venue d’un Britannique (Hutton ce matin<\/a>), cette panique devant la mont\u00e9e du nationalisme (en France, certes) nous fait go\u00fbter un de ces succulents paradoxes d’une \u00e9poque qui se trouble profond\u00e9ment chaque fois qu’elle croise la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Si on lit le texte de Hutton comme il faut, quel \u00e9trange hommage \u00e0 la puissance et \u00e0 l’influence fran\u00e7aises<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe drive to outsiderdom and the right will have profound implications for Europe. France is the European country that takes European values to an irrational, almost surreal, degree. Most Europeans are committed to a European-style welfare state, but it is France which elevates welfarism and solidarite to a religion. Again, most Europeans have uncertainties about American-style free markets. It is the French who have turned the uncertainty into a cult. And there is a general European doubt about the racial, ethnic other, Muslims especially, but it is the French who have created the phenomenon that is le Pen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAny French President has simultaneously to reform the system, but respect those surreal extremes, a task that increasingly looks like being settled by coming down on the right. If so, no corner of Europe will be unaffected. Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, says privately that his biggest discovery since taking over the commission is that nothing substantive can happen without France. The French may not propose or even dispose, but they can block. And for at least a decade, they have been Europe’s blockers, culminating in the vote against the EU constitution two years ago. If France becomes more protectionist , more anti-foreigner, more anti-immigrant as the next President struggles to appease France’s growing right-wing tendencies, the very foundations of the EU will shake.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFor that is the danger. Sarko’ and Sego’, for all their differences, share an intriguing amount of common ground. Both think that to solve its economic and social problems, France must turn its back on top-down, statist government by intellectuals and experts animated by plans, theories and grands projets.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBoth declare France must become fiercely practical and return to the verities of hard work, risk-taking and supporting wealth creation. Yet both say France must retain its commitment to high social protection. And both say France should not open its doors to foreign competition and ownership. The true France must be defended to the last. And both make concessions to le Pen. Sarkozy’s statements are so alarmingly le Penist that the 78-year-old claims he has won the argument. Royale wants the left to be as proud of the Tricolour as the right and insists every worker should meet tough residency requirements.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 15 avril 2007 \u00e0 06H21<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Il existe aujourd’hui, un peu partout en Europe, une panique fran\u00e7aise en train de monter. 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