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  Globalization,  which globalization  ?       (continuation)
" ....   In less than 50 years, Japan passed from a primary economy to a  pole position in high technology. It monopolized certain world markets (photography, for example) and it controls the advanced electronics. Behind, China appears with 1 billion individuals , and more still India, without saying some others. These countries have very advanced elites. They undoubtedly will progress at step of giants and this progression will be done in the sector of high technologies which is currently our only life buoy. They have a growth rate 2 to 3 times greater than ours, which is braked only by the importance of the investments that they have to make. Furthermore, the number of their manpower is so considerable that one cannot count on a fast increase in their average wages. We point out the warning of Alain
Peyrefitte : " When China will wake up, the world will fear !.. "

    If we lower the guard, if we destroy any barrier, if we let these countries compete with us without limits nor restreint with their wages 10 times lower than ours, the result is unfortunately certain : they will devour us. We will have a good look when we see them producing some "Ariane " (that starts), some " Airbus ", " TGV " etc. as good as ours and with half price.  It will be in this field as it is in the field of photography : our industries will disappear. Just after the world war I I, France had 7 " large " shipyards. Six already disappeared. The last will disappear the day when one of these countries will decide to be interested in construction of de luxe liners.  If we do not want to leave our children a situation which quickly will become uncontrolable  it is urgent to make stopping with an unlimited globalization and to fix new rules of the game. Let us not forget that 50 years, it is tomorrow.

     The stand point of Maurice Allais - and he is certainly not anybody - is that we must build strong Europe, homogeneous, constituting a market clean and protected from the external disorders. That does not have anything new : it was the idea of the founders.  Why we gave it up ?  We do not have to make philanthropy with the rest of the world on the back of our children and should practise a systematic European preference. The European market is sufficiently vast to feed a clean growth. The studies of Maurice Allais led him to consider that a satisfactory European growth – higher than the current growth - would be obtained if 80% of European consumption were provided by the European production, the 20% remainders being imported. This system has an universal validity for any regional organization. It only can ensure an advantageous world growth for all.

     He is not in favour to obtain this result by a system of rights which would be inextricable but by a system of quotas. It is up to the civils servant of Brussels to develop and to impose to OMC a system of this kind which preserves the future and leaves us the only masters of this future. It is only in this manner that we will be able to find the full employment and to profit from an healthy growth without hateful counterparts. By giving up any idea of European sovereignty, Brussels devotes the triumph of international finance, makes the misfortune of the people and destroyed Europe.

    " Globalization " and " Europe " are two terms strictly uncompatible, even if the majority of people did not yet take conscience of it :  To be in favour of the globalization  is to be an anti-European ".....  

 

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