Daily Inspiration Quote by Laurent Fabius

Twenty million unemployed is not just a statistic here; its used as an indictment. Fabius frames joblessness as the hard, undeniable reality that should discipline any constitutional project. Against that urgency, he stages the Constitution as a technocratic answer to a social emergency it refuses to name. The rhetorical move is classic statesman-as-prosecutor: set the human cost first, then ask the damning question: what do we get?

His real target is the EU's economic philosophy in the early-2000s enlargement era, when Europe was expanding from 25 to 27 members and imagining 30. Enlargement is presented not as triumph but as pressure-cooker: more countries, more labor markets, more internal rivalry. In that setting, "unrestricted competition" becomes a loaded phrase, shorthand for a market-first Europe that treats competition as a virtue even when it functions like a solvent, dissolving industrial policy, bargaining power, and the idea that the state might actively steer growth.

The subtext is protection-by-another-name, but smartly packaged. Fabius links competition to a cascade of harms: production (offshoring and deindustrialization), wages (downward pressure and weakened unions), and even research and innovation (a warning that a race-to-the-bottom economy cant sustain the high-value future it advertises). Its also an argument about constitutionalization: once rules of competition are baked into a founding text, they become harder to contest democratically. He is asking voters to see economic policy as destiny when its written as law.