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Some French commentators, including the best-selling author Nicolas Baverez, view the outflow of talent as the latest manifestation of French decline. Others are more upbeat - the french conquest of the world blazed the headline of one article on the issue in the right-wing daily Le Figaro - and the official government line is that this exodus is a welcome sign that young French people are keen to broaden their horizons. At the same time, the government has been putting in place several programs designed to encourage émigrés to return, including offering cash incentives to talented scientists...
...complaint made with particular resonance by political commentator Nicolas Baverez, whose best-selling book France Is Falling has turned national decline into the No. 1 topic among the commentariat. Baverez says the shocking results of the first round of presidential elections in April 2002 - when French voters put far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen into a runoff with Chirac - amounted to "a national cry of distress." The massive mandate for Chirac in the second round, bolstered by parliamentary elections in June 2002 that gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility...
...order, and giving France a strong role in the world. The big theme in the papers now is whether France is in decline. Is it? This is an old chestnut in the French press. We have an élite in France that comes from the same place. Nicolas Baverez [author of France Is Falling, the book that sparked the debate] and many others in that élite are enarques, [graduates of the prestigious Ecole Nationale D'Administration that traditionally supplies France's political leadership]. These are people trained by the power structure but who do not hold office, who have...
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