Defenders of the French system quibble over labor-cost statistics in their efforts to prove that France is not so different from its main European trading partners. But the facts of the last decade – including a significant loss of export-market share and a 5%-of-GDP deterioration in the current-account balance – paint a different picture.
法国制度的捍卫者用劳动力成本统计数字为依据为这一行为开脱，以证明法国于其主要欧洲贸易伙伴并没有什么区别。但过去十年的事实——包括出口市场份额的急剧下降和占GDP的5%的经常项目赤字——描绘的是一幅不同的画面。