Debates
The intellectual backstage. Every essay is born from a debate — sometimes fierce, always honest. Here are the syntheses of our deliberations.
Electricity prices and the European market
The rules of the European electricity market — merit order, ARENH, renewable subsidies — impose on French consumers a massive surcharge relative to the real cost of their nuclear fleet. The assembly is unanimous on the diagnosis but divided on the remedies: internal reform, partial decoupling, or exit from the system.
The European Union: sovereignty lost or multiplied?
The Assembly debates European sovereignty. Unanimity on one point: Frexit would be suicide. Unanimity on another: Europe as it exists does not work. Between these two certainties, twelve theoretical frameworks clash over the nature of the dysfunction and the means to remedy it.
Energy and Climate
France has the most decarbonized electricity mix in Europe — 56 g of CO2 per kWh versus 380 in Germany — but this advantage masks deep fractures over EDF governance, transition financing, and the social distribution of its costs.
Healthcare in France
Can the French healthcare system, built in 1945 and never restructured since, still guarantee the constitutional right to health protection? The Assembly discovers that the diagnosis is unanimous — but that the treatment reveals irreconcilable visions of what France should be.
Public Debt — ticking time bomb or instrument of power?
3,228 billion euros of debt, 112% of GDP, 51 billion in annual servicing costs. The Assembly confronts six ideological frameworks — Chicago, Marx, Austrian School, ordoliberalism, Keynesianism, Burkean conservatism — to determine whether France's debt is a symptom, a mechanism, or a fait accompli.
Immigration in France
France does not have an immigration policy: it has an accumulation of contradictory reflexes. The Assembly confronts twelve ideological frameworks — from the Chicago School to analytical Marxism, from Burkean conservatism to crypto-libertarianism — to separate fact from fiction.
National Education: 64 billion euros, 27% functionally illiterate
The Education nationale, a Napoleonic monopoly with a 64-billion-euro budget, can no longer teach a quarter of its students to read. The Assembly is divided on the very purpose of schooling — but converges on a damning diagnosis.
The Housing Crisis in France
Why does France, which spends 42 billion euros a year on housing and has more dwellings per capita than Germany, produce 4 million inadequately housed people and 330,000 homeless? The Assembly follows the money.