Eric Le Boucher
Eric Le Boucher (b. 1950) has been managing editor of Les Echos since 2008. He was manager and business editor at Le Monde and is one of the founders of the Slate.fr website. He is the author of Economiquement incorrect (Economically Incorrect – Grasset & Fasquelle, 2005), an overview of the global economy and of France’s position in the early twenty-first century.
Updated: 28 October 2011
Revolution, protectionism, leaving the euro: the run-up to the presidential election, and the first-round vote on 22 April, has been marked by ideas that are popular but wholly divorced from reality. A columnist deplores what he perceives as the characteristic syndrome of a country that is unable to examine its conscience. 
The agreement reached by the seventeen states of the eurozone is leaving out one crucial issue: growth. Two problems therefore remain unresolved: the lack of a common macroeconomic policy and the divisions between the member countries.