The EU has stated that the deficit in every country cannot exceed 3% of the national economic output. Those who do are fined (like France and Germany).

How about the US budget deficit?

And we don't have those thousands of Iraqi deaths, those hundreds of soldiers returning back in body bags for a war that wasn't justified as Iraq wasn't a threat to the world after all.
Multilateralism pays off! France cannot do everything it wants; it's going to have to compose with the other europeans and the pension problem is a general one.
Your article is nothing but a search for a scapegoat for problems your contry largely by itself created.

Raoul