Overview
- Le Cercle des économistes published a 14-proposal manifesto on July 4, 2026 at the Rencontres économiques d'Aix calling on 2027 presidential candidates to adopt its measures.
- The flagship measure would give every young person a €10,000 'Top départ jeunesse' investment capital at majority financed by a roughly 1% rise in inheritance taxation.
- The manifesto proposes concrete education reforms including an annual guidance interview and the right for pupils to switch between general, professional and technological tracks to reduce dead ends.
- It calls for a CESE reform to reserve 50% of adviser seats for people under 35 and for conditioning some fiscal advantages, notably on assurance-vie, on investments in 'tech souveraine' to mobilize European savings for strategic industries.
- On European strategy the paper urges member-state specialisation by sector—for example France on nuclear and Estonia on cybersecurity—as a way to concentrate industrial strength and improve cross-border competitiveness.