The creation of a “French Mittelstand”: fantasm or achievable projection?[La création d'un « Mittelstand francais » : mirage ou projection réalisable ?]

In a context of crisis and economic difficulties, we often look around to see how others are overcoming the same difficulties. If we look at Germany's economic performance, it is doing better than the French economy, a fact that we attribute to its companies belonging to the Mittelstand, which we compare to medium-sized and intermediate industrial companies. . Thus, according to the recommendations of some economic commentators, it would be sufficient to take inspiration from the German model and create a fabric of companies similars to that of German companies to reconnect with economic performance. The French understanding of the term Mittelstand leads to erroneous conclusions which lead to analyzes distorted by a misinterpretation of what the Mittelstand represents. The solution does not lie in inserting a foreign model into the economy but in taking inspiration from German public support to increase the performance of French companies.