In recent weeks, France has been experiencing one of the greatest internal crises in the history of its Fifth Republic.

Sébastien Lecornu is the fourth prime minister to be dismissed or resign in the last two years, the fifth in three, one more Macron to fall and then be rehabilitated in that French political labyrinth, the French like the rest of their western neighbors on the European continent are very sensitive to reforms -especially pension reforms- and even more so if these have to be drastically reduced.

Even worse if the measures proposed by Macron’s government are the drastic increase in taxes on those they call the richest or the suppression of holidays among many others, all of them unpopular, all this of course without touching the mammoth bureaucracy and French political caste and its enormous expenses, the largest in Western Europe.

War-mongering headlines followed by open threats to Russia and official photos with Zelensky, Ukraine’s de facto dictator, can no longer hide an economic reality and its rather apocalyptic projection, in the words of former Prime Minister Bayrou before the French parliament. At the moment, France is borrowing at a rate of 5,000 euros per second and nothing is being done about it: interest costs will be one hundred billion euros per year by 2029, which could lead to economic collapse in the country, coinciding, curiously, with the famous 2030 agenda.

All this without mentioning the reality that France is trying to hide from the outside world in terms of internal security and its geopolitical panorama marked by a galloping loss of influence, especially in Africa, whose traditional colonies and its energy and mineral resources can no longer exploit as before without being accountable to anyone, to the point of seeing how its companies and military personnel are expelled one after another from some countries considered to be their traditional fiefdoms.

To all this we have to add the military spending that France has planned in its new rearmament program, the donations to the black hole called Ukraine, which undoubtedly benefit the European technocratic elites, but the expense goes through the pocket of the European taxpayer, in this case the French.

Then, there are Trump’s new tariffs on products from the European Union, without forgetting that the offer that the French leader received more than half a decade ago from Russia to liberalize the entry of French luxury products into the huge Eurasian market is already more than expired, France is no longer attractive and all this is one more weight to the “French economic Titanic” that has long since collided with the iceberg but the orchestra continues to sound. Patches in the form of short- and medium-term economic measures and reforms are no longer valid.

France needs electroshock therapy and no one is willing to pay the political price of such profound measures without counting the conservative national grouping led by Le Pen, who has already mentioned that she prefers to go to elections rather than support the measures proposed by the Macron government and its partners.

It is always more attractive for the French globalist elite to borrow from the IMF, as for French exports in 2025 they have shown mixed trends, with a slight drop in August (51,802.3 million euros) compared to July, although in general the figures for 2025 reflect a year-on-year decline in the first quarter, mainly due to the drop in energy prices and lower domestic demand where some sectors such as automobiles,  hydrocarbons and electronic components have seen serious declines as for the problem with French pensions is very evident and is as follows

• Declining contributor base: The ratio of workers to retirees is falling, jeopardizing the financial viability of the system.
  
• Public debt: France faces significant public debt, which limits fiscal space to increase pension spending without reforms.
  
• Lack of social consensus: The majority of the population opposes austerity measures and pension reforms.

All this tells us that France, together with Germany, is, without a doubt, the great sick country of Europe.