So here is the time for my last column “Hexagone Express” which will also be one of my last articles in the columns of the Temps, that I will be leaving on April 30. When we started this weekly meeting dedicated to France in 2016, the bet was daring: to talk every week about our big neighbor whose tribulations often disorient us. But above all, talking about it while avoiding the two pitfalls which are the worst dangers for an observer of this country which we believe we know so well: the systematic criticism of a French system presumed to be outdated, stiff, too ignorant of the implacable commercial, financial and budgets; and the logical irritation provoked, seen from Switzerland, by the verticality and the congenital presidential centralization of the institutions of the Ve Republic.
That convulsive France would be better off, in short, if she looked more like appeased Switzerland! This assertion, which logically rises to the surface, has no reason to exist. Too reductive to be believable. Too ignorant of the cultural, institutional, historical, geographical precipice which separates the Republic from the Confederation.
Yes, the tricolor political cuisine would do well to take inspiration from a few recipes bearing the red flag with a white cross. But the columnist has to get used to it. Charles de Gaulle was probably right when he said, in his inimitable tone that was both so popular and so monarchical:
“France is not really
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