The theme all change so that nothing changes

The Gracchi, from club of the elite economic and administrative instead of centre-left, are determined to do what it takes so that the France, finally, will reform. This last Saturday took their third university. The theme: "all change so that nothing changes." In reality: how to make that crisis giving birth to a "third way" to the French, to draw the contours and examine the conditions of its political translation. To achieve the objective, Bernard Spitz, grand master of the ceremony, had together very high-level personalities of Kemal Dervis to Jacques Attali passing by Mario Monti, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Erik Orsenna, René Frydman, Franco Bassanini, André Azoulay, Daniel Cohen to name only few.

The first analysis. The University has pointed to the two challenges that make necessary political intervention: economic and financial first, challenge the societal then challenge. We are not out of the crisis, even. On the contrary. On this point, experts agree, even if each is more optimistic than that of others. The most pessimistic argue that it is much less out of the crisis that the instruments used to extinguish the fire, massive injection of liquidity and corresponding debt, create the conditions for a new crisis, even more serious. The debt of the States puts them in the hands of the financial markets, which can degrade, put it into bankruptcy (Dubai), thus threatening the whole of the system. Where the requirement of good governance of financial markets, including the most optimistic estimate that the g-20 laid the first stones, while noting that it is very far from the account. According to Jean-Pierre Jouyet, 50 of the financial exchanges are exempt from national regulators. All the more necessary financial governance should be that money to invest there where it is really necessary: in the areas of food and energy.

On the face societal, organizers had asked the question "new social contract and desire for happiness." The panelists seemed baffled by this issue of "happiness", yet quite legitimate in a society of individuals. And the debate quickly refocused on living together: solidarity, discrimination, reports of power and domination. In other words, what is the future of the middle class that was the alpha and omega of Keynesian policies and neo-liberal globalization has continued to Flay to the benefit of the rich With host, the management of the consequences of the crisis: who will finally called to pay debts if the same class mean

What program A consensus is emerging, as evidence. If liberal globalization appears to all sentenced, the same does not want to hear talk of a return to Keynes. The welfare state is considered as having gone bankrupt. Hence the search for a "third way". Two main lines of strength the structure. First the question of the Government economic and financial. It is not against the market and the State, but to design the action of public authorities which would make efficient markets, would be that the requirements of long-term outweigh the immediate profits and the real needs are the capital necessary to their satisfaction. Therefore a strong, effective economic governance and may be global. Then, a deep tax reform, with two objectives: the first regulation of the financial activities, the second of social justice. The fate of a society centred on the middle class depends on a new economy of levies and redistribution, which should integrate all the components of the taxation: public and social.

But, as that purpose is stated, a question is mounted. These concerns did express not eventually enough conservative vision of a generation that has exceeded the majority The future is does not outside For example, among young people, those who have 30 years today, which never experienced that the crisis and come out carrying values and aspirations in breach. Or even among environmentalists, who not only have an alternative discourse: economic and financial field (decay), field values (save the planet by changing lifestyles) and governance (with the climate issue). And this, even though, according to Roland Cayrol, opinion, which considers the crisis well officials (bankers), is also anxious for itself and its future reserved on trust to give to anyone who purported to be his Savior.

How to move the program to its translation policy Two requirements. The first, according to Manuel Valls, is to restore the credibility of politicians: they must tell the truth. The second, put second jealousies of apparatus to allow the gathering requires technology of the presidential election.

Jacques Attali was to conclude on the observation that founded the intuition of the Gracchi: the fundamentals are more than ever on the left, democracy suffers everywhere in Europe. The merit of this University is that it has proposed, clearly, a way that this hiatus ended. Who can therefore borrow it