> the order of magnitude that's needed to put the country back on its feet
The amount of reforms needed in France could fit in an encyclopedia. LFI or the RN will not fix this mess and the center who has been in power for 10 years is all but useless. The old center-left and center-right parties have all been in power also and led us to this place which means that are not the solution either.
Seems to me that France is well and truly stuck on a slow but certain decline. But the other EU countries are not doing much better either.