La Federal Reserve Bank de Dallas (Texas) se penche sur les avantages de l'intégration économique européenne et s'interroge sur la pertinence d'un modèle économique uniquement basé sur les modèles français et allemands. Les données stigmatisent une Union Européenne toujours en retard d'une guerre:
Over the past two decades, the U.S. economy has grown at an annual rate of 3.2 percent, while the French economy has grown by barely 2 percent per year. Except for a brief spike following reunification in the early 1990s, the German economy has fared even worse.
Unemployment is a good indicator of labor market flexibility, and here, too, the evidence is clear. U.S. unemployment has fallen from 8 percent to 5 percent over the past two decades, while the French and German rates have averaged about 10 percent.
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