article<\/a> ce 1er ao\u00fbt. La continuit\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise est donc compl\u00e8tement r\u00e9tablie et l’orientation \u00e0 la fois souverainiste et nationale de Sarkozy symboliquement marqu\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tPour autant le moins \u00e0 l’aise n’est pas celui qu’on pense, tant s’en faut. Manifestement Sarkozy se fout du tiers comme du quart d’\u00eatre accus\u00e9 (dr\u00f4le d’accusation) de nationalisme \u00e9conomique, dito<\/em>, de protectionnisme, ou n\u00e9o-protectionnisme. Et Thumann, dans sa critique, est si peu \u00e0 l’aise qu’il ferait aussi bien figure de suspect proche d’\u00eatre accus\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t D’abord, la principale cible de sa critique est moins Sarkozy que Merkel, qui est accus\u00e9e de suivre la politique fran\u00e7aise. C’est bien le sens du paragraphe d’ouverture de l’article du FT : \u00abGermany’s leading industry lobbyist warned Berlin on Tuesday not to follow France’s lead in raising the state’s influence on the economy in response to the challenges of globalisation.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Ensuite, Thumann est lui-m\u00eame d\u00e9sign\u00e9 par le FT comme quelque peu hypocrite, dans la mesure o\u00f9 il soutient la principale initiative de Merkel qui justifie son avertissement doctrinal \u00e0 cette m\u00eame Merkel, qui est la protection du syst\u00e8me bancaire allemand par l’instauration d’un organisme inspir\u00e9 du CFIUS am\u00e9ricaniste, charg\u00e9 de surveiller les investisseurs \u00e9trangers s’implantant aux USA. Le pourtant (Yet<\/em>) de ce passage dit tout : \u00abYet the challenges of globalisation, which inspires as much fear in the German public as in the French, have led to contradictions. That was illustrated by Mr Thumann’s endorsement of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plans to shield industry from investments by cash-rich foreign governments, raising the likelihood of a decision on erecting such protective measures next month.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Et le FT enfonce le clou, en signalant de surcroit que l’initiative de Merkel est directement inspir\u00e9 d’une intervention de Thurman, qui dit par ailleurs tout son d\u00e9go\u00fbt pour le protectionnisme qui est dans son esprit une machination fran\u00e7aise (\u00abThe economic patriotism championed by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, was among the factors fuelling a protectionist zeitgeist in Europe. This zeitgeist exists. But I do not have to follow the zeitgeist. On the contrary, it encourages me even more to fight the temptation of protectionist measures.<\/em>\u00bb). Le FT ne manque donc pas d’encha\u00eener, assez fielleusement, sur cette protection de foi par l’expos\u00e9 de son contraire:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abMr Thumann said the government should set up a mechanism modelled on the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, which vets foreign acquisitions of potentially strategic US assets.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBusiness leaders have had difficulties squaring their calls for state protection against unwelcome investors with their rejection of protectionism in principle.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Ce qui conduit \u00e0 une profession de foi (suite) finale du m\u00eame Thurman, aussi ardente et affirmative qu’embarrass\u00e9e et contradictoire, illustrant \u00e0 merveille l’actuelle situation de l’Allemagne (et nombre d’autres pays dans la m\u00eame situation), entre leur credo<\/em> anti-potectionniste et les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s de leus int\u00e9r\u00eats \u00e9conomiques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abWe support the free movement of capital and oppose all barriers to investment. Our motto is: no protectionism, he says.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe only thing I’m saying is that when state funds, for example from Russia and China but not only from these countries, seek to invest in key industries or companies in Germany and other countries, then I can understand that the government sees a certain need for control.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMr Thumann is less preoccupied with potential threats to national security and more concerned about foreign states siphoning off know-how and patents.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWe cannot rule out the possibility that states may have other interests than private investors and do not follow the rules of the market, he says.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tConclusion : Sarkozy, en faisant de l’affaire du patriotisme \u00e9conomique un sujet essentiel de l’agenda europ\u00e9enne, a r\u00e9ussi un coup de ma\u00eetre en transmettant \u00e0 la puissante Allemagne la patate chaude particuli\u00e8rement br\u00fblante de la contradiction entre le cat\u00e9chisme conformiste lib\u00e9ral et les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s des int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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C’est fait : dans le langage politique et \u00e9conomique europ\u00e9en et lib\u00e9ral courant, l’expression honnie patriotisme \u00e9conomique est d\u00e9sormais employ\u00e9e pour le pr\u00e9sident Sarkozy, mais aussi pour caract\u00e9riser le d\u00e9bat europ\u00e9en. C’est un pas en avant g\u00e9ant dans la dialectique du d\u00e9bat. Cette expression, officiellement employ\u00e9e par les Fran\u00e7ais avec le gouvernement Villepin, est d\u00e9sormais… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2748,6909,4751,398,4633,6806,4663,4590,6910],"class_list":["post-69074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-allemagne","tag-bdi","tag-economique","tag-europe","tag-merkel","tag-neo-protectionnisme","tag-patriotisme","tag-sarkozy","tag-thurman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}