Dossier · 8 parts · 50 decisions
1975-2025: France through its decisions
Eight parts covering the fifty decisions the Institut Thomas More holds responsible for France's decline — what the report says, what it documents, and what it leaves out.
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01 1975-2025: what the Institut Thomas More report says
A liberal-conservative institute attributes France's decline to fifty precise decisions since 1975, rather than external shocks alone.
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02 School, culture, family: seven decisions in the Thomas More report
Seven decisions, from 1975 to 2025: the Thomas More report points to schools, culture, and family as arenas of the same structural weakening.
7 decisions 1975-2025 Read this part -
03 Immigration and borders: seven decisions in the Thomas More report
Family reunification, Schengen, state medical aid: seven rulings, from 1976 to 2018, that a report reads as a gradual loss of sovereignty.
7 decisions 1976-2018 Read this part -
04 Work, tax and welfare: eight decisions in the Thomas More report
Retirement at 60, wealth tax, 35-hour week, debt: the Thomas More report reviews eight decisions from 1981 to 2015 and their costs over fifty years.
8 decisions 1981-2015 Read this part -
05 Public services and bureaucracy: ten decisions in the Thomas More report
Ten reforms in fifty years, from the numerus clausus to the NOTRe law: each text promised simplification, each added one more layer or rule.
10 decisions 1979-2017 Read this part -
06 Authority and democracy: eight decisions in the Thomas More report
According to the Institut Thomas More, the five-year term, the anti-fake-news law and limits on multiple mandates have concentrated power in the executive.
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07 Sovereignty: ten decisions in the Thomas More report
Sale of Alstom, milk quotas, Maastricht, Lisbon: ten decisions through which France delegated its sovereignty and never reclaimed it.
10 decisions 1984-2021 Read this part -
08 What the report leaves out: the Ouroboros and two disagreements
The Thomas More report documents fifty decisions, but the Ouroboros linking them is never named. A separate reading, with two openly stated disagreements.
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The source
This dossier is an outside reading of a report published by a third party. It does not replace it.
1975-2025 : les 50 décisions qui ont coulé la France (rapport 36, juin 2026), Jean de Belot, Tarick Dali et Jean-Thomas Lesueur.
Published by Institut Thomas More.