On the road again
2027: Last Call, by Paul Corey, is a rigorous examination of France’s political, economic, and institutional stagnation.
2027: Last Call, by Paul Corey
The book argues that France is not facing a temporary budgetary crisis, but a deeper systemic deadlock rooted in decades of political choices and institutional constraints. By 2032, the country could require an adjustment of around €145 billion simply to restore a sustainable trajectory.
But Last Call is not merely a diagnosis.
It proposes a radically different approach to the 2027 presidential election: not another catalogue of campaign promises, but a clear democratic mandate for structural transformation.
At the heart of this transformation is the use of sovereign artificial intelligence to rethink public administration, improve efficiency, simplify the State and help redesign an increasingly unsustainable welfare system.
The book also looks beyond France, comparing its trajectory with European countries that have already undertaken difficult reforms and restored greater economic and fiscal resilience.
Its central warning is simple:
France still has a choice. But the window is closing.
The country can undertake reform democratically, through an explicit mandate from its citizens — or wait until financial, economic and external pressures impose a far more brutal correction.
2027 may therefore be France’s last call to choose change rather than endure it.
Paul Corey