New French president scraps public policy review

The early days of a new administration can be interesting, by the choice of what dossiers to handle urgently. Public governance experts will examine the proposal already published by the new team in charge in France, following yesterday's victory of François Hollande (supported by the socialist party) to scrap the RGPP, the general review of public policies, a wide-scale review of public spending recently positively assessed by an OECD report (see previous post). The renovation of the public administration will of course be continued, but under the designation of "refoundation and modernisation of public action" (policy). It is interesting to note that this measure is announced among the 12 most urgent steps to be undertaken by new government, i.e. before July. All the media widely report this first batch of urgent reforms (see Google news). For a more economically minded panorama of the debate in France, see Valeurs Actuelles article.