Choose France, Lose Macron

Choose France? A costly PR operation funded by taxpayer money — as France slides into recession.

Democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people. Xenocracy is government of the foreigner, by the foreigner, for the foreigner. So — which one do you think we're living under?

The eurozone is limping along at a projected 2026 growth rate of just 1.1% to 1.3% — a pitiful crawl that trails the global average of 2.7% by a mile, following an already anaemic 1.5% in 2025.

The energy shock triggered by Israel and the United States’ war on Iran has sent commodity prices surging, choking economic activity while inflation roars back — expected to hit 3.1% in 2026, a full point above earlier forecasts, before supposedly easing to 2.4% in 2027. The European Commission says so. Cold comfort.

In France, the damage is visceral: household purchasing power is being hollowed out, and Social Security is haemorrhaging — a €15.3 billion deficit now threatens the very survival of the healthcare system.

For all of Emmanuel Macron’s grandiose speeches, France keeps deindustrialising at a terrifying pace.

In 2024, it was the subsidiaries of multinational corporations switching off the lights. In 2025, it’s the mid-sized companies, the unsung backbone of France’s industrial fabric, that are quietly shutting their doors.

These are not faceless conglomerates. These are the firms that anchor local economies, sustain supply chains, and keep entire communities alive. And they are going under, one by one. “Choose France,” Emmanuel Macron says. French industrial companies, it seems, have not other choice but to vanish.