Family benefits: family business?
By Hélène Périvier Bertrand Fragonard has submitted his report to the Prime Minister; it aims, first, to enhance the redistributive nature of family policy and, […]
Articles by Laurence Duboys Fresney
In memoriam. Raymond Boudon
By Michel Forsé Raymond Boudon, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris Sorbonne, died at the age of 79 on Wednesday, 10 April 2013. It […]
Cyprus: Aphrodite to the rescue?
By Céline Antonin and Sandrine Levasseur For two weeks Cyprus sent tremors through the European Union. If the banking crisis that the island is going […]
And what if the austerity budget has succeeded better in France than elsewhere? [1]
By Mathieu Plane Faced with a rapid and explosive deterioration in their public accounts, the industrialized countries, particularly in Europe, have implemented large-scale austerity policies, […]
Zero interest loans: only for the rich?
By Pierre Madec On 1 January 2013, a new version of the zero-interest loan (prêt à taux zéro – PTZ) came into force. It is […]
Cyprus: a well-conceived plan, a country in ruins…
By Anne-Laure Delatte and Henri Sterdyniak The plan that has just been adopted sounds the death knell for the banking haven in Cyprus and implements […]
The Cypri-hot case!
By Jérôme Creel In advance of a more in-depth study of the crisis in Cyprus and its impact on the euro zone, here are a […]
How to reform the reduction on payroll taxes?
By Mathieu Bunel, Céline Emond, Yannick L’Horty More than 20 billion euros are spent every year by the State to compensate the general exemptions from […]
20 billion euros in reductions on employer payroll taxes on low-wages. But will it create jobs?
By Eric Heyer and Mathieu Plane Every year the State spends nearly 1 percentage point of GDP, i.e. 20 billion euros, on general reductions in […]
The death throes of the “Confederation of Europe”?
By Jacques Le Cacheux Will the institutions that the European Union has developed – from the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, which created it and defined […]