Economie : le NY Times conjure la France de ne pas appliquer l'austérité "dictée par Berlin".

French manufacturing has contracted for four consecutive months. Economic growth for 2014 has flatlined at nearly zero, forcing France to scrap deficit-reduction targets pledged to the European Union.

On the domestic front, a Socialist government at odds with much of the party will have a harder time pushing through legislation on clean energy, terrorism and aging. While ridding the government of Mr. Montebourg’s strident protectionism is not necessarily a bad idea, stubbornly hewing to the austerity line dictated by Berlin and the European Central Bank is likely to prove as disastrous for France as it is proving for Europe as a whole.