“Économie de Guerre” on the Left Bank of the Rhine and “Resilience Economy” on the Right – One Goal and Two Concepts
摘要
It was at the opening of the armaments fair “Eurosatory” in Paris on June 13, 2022, when French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on personally inaugurating the event and, for the first time, called upon the industry present to adopt a “war economy.” He stated verbatim: “For Eurosatory is much more than a laboratory for military innovations, … it is a concept of our European sovereignty, and when I stand before you today, it is first and foremost a sign of trust in our armed forces, and I know how much our industry, especially for our army in these days and for all our armed forces, is fully mobilized. … This trust has arisen in a completely new context, and I think we all must, on this occasion and in the time to come, draw the consequences from it, namely the entry into a war economy, in which, in my opinion, we must organize ourselves on a permanent basis. This also means an economy in which we must act more quickly and think differently about rhythms, increases in capacity, and margins, in order to be able to restore more rapidly what is essential for our armed forces, our allies, or for those we wish to help. Essentially, an economy in which one can no longer live at the same pace and with the same grammar as a year ago. Everything has changed.” (Eurosatory Paris 2022)