M. Bayrou veut mettre l'accent, à l'heure où l'Allemagne est un modèle, sur la"culture de cogestion" dans les entreprises. En proposant, par exemple, la participation des salariés au conseil d'administration des entreprises de plus de 500 salariés.But Bayrou glosses over other differences. Once the unions have inspected the books, they have to be persuaded that wage restraint can actually increase the firm's market share, enhance investment and productivity, and ultimately improve the position of workers. This is not true in every type of industry and may be a strategy better-suited to Germany's product and sectoral mix than to France's. Germany's relative success in recent years is not necessarily reproducible simply by adopting German methods. But Bayrou is a little closer to reality than Sarkozy.
Meanwhile, in other presidential news, J.-P. Chevènement has dropped out of the race, as expected. And Eva Joly is sinking fast.