Rehabilitating the production base and reducing vulnerability to the internationalisation of voor.
It is on this theme that Paul Hérault, Associate researcher at the Chair and author of the study « How can we strengthen our sovereignty in an era of global value chains?« will be speaking on Monday 28 March at IFRI, as part of a conference with Philippe Logak, General Rapporteur to the Haut-Commissariat au Plan (5pm - 6.30pm).
The health crisis was a stark reminder of certain risks associated with the globalisation of value chains and the de-industrialisation of France and Europe. Recent work by Ifri and the Haut-Commissariat au Plan (the French Planning Commission) aims to provide not only a diagnosis but also recommendations on the methodology to be adopted to identify and respond to the most critical external dependencies.
In January 2022, the Haut-Commissariat au Plan published a report on the identification of vulnerabilities in medicines and health products, and also suggested a method based on a line-by-line analysis of detailed foreign trade figures, which could be used as the basis for a strategy to win back our production base.
For his part, Paul Hérault suggests ways of better managing the risks associated with global value chains: identifying and mapping strategic value chains; assessing their criticality and defining the levers for securing them; and coordinating the roles of the various players: public and private, national and European.
The discussion will be moderated by Alice Pannier, Head of the Geopolitics of Technology programme at IFRI.
