It is an article from Le Monde (source here) which dares to evoke the “Trumpist” temptation of French bosses who can no longer stand the bureaucracy which is slowly destroying our country and which has gone totally crazy in recent years making everything, simply impossible.
“French bosses, from fed up with the State to Trumpist temptation”
The words of Luc Rémont (EDF), Xavier Niel (Iliad) or Jean-Laurent Bonnafé (BNP Paribas), against bureaucracy or too many taxes, reflect an anger which leads some to desire a reform of the type entrusted to Elon Musk in the United States.
A boss of a public company, formerly of Bercy, and a tenor of the private sector united by the same fed up, that has weight. “It’s hell to invest in France for regulatory reasons. The first obstacle to decarbonization today is the procedures,” attacked Luc Rémont, CEO of EDF, Tuesday December 10, at the congress of the French Electricity Union, in Paris. “Here, in France, I have 500 renewable energy developers who barely manage to produce 300 megawatts to 400 megawatts per year. In the United States, I built 2 gigawatts in one year. I cannot continue to invest in a country (…) for such a low return,” warned Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of TotalEnergies, calling for “simplification of processes”.
They are not the only ones. The reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, Saturday December 7, after five years of titanic construction, was the occasion for a concert in this register, without organ or violin. “We passed exceptional laws so that the artisans of Notre-Dame do not have to face the constraints that annoy them (…) throughout the year”, underlined, in particular, the liberal economist Nicholas
In Le Figaro it is the same thing and the same observations concerning the bureaucracy which is suffocating our country and its vital forces.
“It's hell to invest in France for regulatory reasons,” cursed Luc Rémont, boss of EDF, this Tuesday, in unison with the CEO of TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyané who, a few minutes earlier, explained that he was not to be able to “continue to invest in a country (France), to have as many people who [lui] cost money for such a low return.” Gathered during a round table at the congress of the French Electricity Union in Paris (UFE), the two business leaders were not kind to the endless French bureaucracy, the “procedures”, the “administrative delays which are just incommensurable with what we experience elsewhere in the world”. To the point that Patrick Pouyané even said he was ready to “make decisions towards countries that are more welcoming”, such as Germany. (Source Le Figaro here)
What is bureaucracy?
The best definition for me of bureaucracy is when the process and the rules matter more than the result.
We prefer to fail by respecting the rules than to succeed by reading them… more “flexibly”.
A country that works well is a country where everyone must be able to exercise discernment.
Today, in all companies (or almost) the processes are so rigid that “individuals” no longer have the capacity to act with “discernment” and find themselves applying even stupid processes.
Charles SANNAT
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