" .... 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 ".....