As an independent institution reporting to the Prime Minister, France Stratégie's mission is to shed light on current and future issues, develop relevant proposals and produce public policy assessments. In 2020, France Stratégie offered rigorous and up-to-date analyses on the major issues that marked the year and will shape the years to come. Its publications are aimed at public authorities, civil society and citizens.

Whether with reflections about constructing a common budget for the euro-zone to prevent crises and "rebuild European solidarity,” or measuring the environmental impact of digital technology, or evaluating the dual objectives of protection against poverty and creating work incentives, or explaining the slow-down in French productivity... France Stratégie in 2019 has made significant contributions to public awareness and debate on these and other vital issues.

In 2018, France Stratégie's agenda was fully aligned with the issues shaping public action and debate. Let’s go back over a year of publications and events.

France Stratégie is the French Prime Minister’s strategic planning unit. It contributes to public policy and helps to stimulate and inform debate. It conducts research, anticipates future trends, develops relevant proposals and evaluates public policies. France Stratégie focuses its analysis, forecasting and evaluation work on four issues: economy; work, employment and skills; society and social policies; sustainable development and digital technology. All its work is published on the France Stratégie website. Its productions are addressed to public authorities as well as citizens.

France Stratégie's programme for 2021 has a simple but demanding ambition: our work should provide useful contributions to public policy when the latter is facing unprecedented challenges. The health, economic, and social crisis of 2020 has represented a double-challenge for France Stratégie: taking it into account in our work in order to providedecision-makers and public opinion with up-to-date information on topical issues while intensifying our efforts to carry out the medium- and long-term projects initially planned. We believe that we have taken up this challenge.

France Stratégie's mission is to provide public authorities, as well as all our fellow citizens, with original and useful insights for public decision-making about France's economic, environmental and social challenges, to formulate relevant public policy proposals, and to evaluate public policies, with a consistent regard for quality and openness.

A common theme runs through all the studies set to be launched in 2019: providing France with a model for sustainable development in all its aspects – economy, society, public finances, territories and, of course, environment.

The Covid-19 pandemic remained unpredictable in 2021, as the progression of the Omicron variant dramatically demonstrated. However, the economic situation has seen an increasing number of encouraging indicators, month after month, on activity and employment. This tends to show that the very large-scale policies put in place to deal with the crisis that began in early 2020 have achieved their objectives.