State Reform
It is no longer our role to be spectators of decline. It is our role to help steer the ship back democratically, before market constraints impose it on us in pain.
3,460 billion euros of debt — INSEE, end of 2025. 152.5 billion annual deficit. Debt service has become the State’s second budget item, ahead of defense, justice and internal security.
Meanwhile, the French economy is suffocating under a fiscal, administrative and regulatory steamroller that discourages initiative, slows industry and drives talent away. Getting back on course has become vital and urgent. But urgency is not enough: one must also have a precise roadmap, and know exactly where, when and how to intervene.
This book is that manual.
The result of nearly a year of independent work, without party affiliation, without consulting firms and without funding: a set of seven dossiers totaling about 2,500 pages, built from public sources, the cross-party Barros-Lavarde Senate report of July 3, 2025, the work of the Court of Auditors, INSEE, DREES and the general inspectorates.
The present work is the founding dossier of the Plan of Rupture and reform of the State, its editorial gateway. Organized into twenty-eight thematic sections and four operational attachments, it does not merely identify where to intervene: it provides the set of texts to produce or modify in order to carry out this undertaking — constitutional revisions, organic laws, amendments, implementation timetable. A turnkey tool for the recovery of a nation in decline. It lays the foundations for an overall target of 310 to 360 billion euros in recurring savings per year by the end of a mandate, a meticulous calculation by the author covering the whole of public expenditure.
This book is self-contained. Six complementary dossiers, devoted to the methodical sorting of the State’s 1,494 satellite entities — keep, merge, reintegrate, abolish — extend the approach and are freely available to anyone wishing to go further.
WHO THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN FOR: For all citizens who refuse to watch their country sink and who want to understand how we should proceed to steer it back. For parliamentarians who want ready-to-use legislative tools and to draw on a set of quantified proposals. For candidates for public office who want to complete or strengthen their programs with viable proposals. For senior civil servants who know that the State apparatus will no longer hold as it is without deep reform and who must understand what awaits them sooner or later. For all those who believe that democratic debate must finally take charge of the concrete, the sourced, the quantified. Beyond its reading, this book is part of a broader civic approach.