‘A call for a revolutionary change for a new economic policy.’ In a speech to the Economic and Defence Commission of the Association of Alumni of the Institute for Higher National Defence Studies in December 2007, Laurence Parisot, the head of France’s leading employers’ federation, described the current situation affecting French businesses, in particular the handicaps that make them less competitive. She proposes a real revolution of our economic policy that puts the priority on the supply side rather than on demand.