Invited to an economic debate in "Le cercle de minuit", Jean-Paul FITOUSSI believes that French economic policy has favoured unemployment, thus removing employees' bargaining power in companies. It therefore advocates full employment to restore social balance.
On the set of the program "Polémiques", Jean Paul FITOUSSI, director of the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE), believes that the strikes of December 1995 showed to the political leaders that "the protection of society is more important than that of the markets".
Jean-Paul FITOUSSI, from the French Observatory of Economic Conditions, explains the repercussions of the rise of the dollar on the franc, which should push France to continue an austere economic policy.