A permanent surveillance disguised as progress
Mandatory electronic invoicing is not limited to replacing paper with digital formats. It establishes a system where every transaction, every service, every euro earned is potentially traceable in real time by the administration via the European network Peppol, international network which connects businesses and governments together and allows them to exchange data related to the invoicing of goods and services. The self-employed individual is no longer a free economic actor, but a permanent suspect, whose activity must be monitored, validated, archived, and analyzed.
The self-employed individual is no longer a free economic actor, but a permanent suspect.
This shift is dangerous. It transforms the relationship between the State and citizens into one of structural mistrust. Rather than presuming good faith, a system is imposed where transparency becomes a one-sided obligation, without reciprocity.
An additional burden for the most vulnerable
Unlike large companies, the self-employed do not have the technical means or human resources to easily absorb these new constraints. Imposed software, training, updates, technical compliance… all of this represents a real cost — financial, but also in time and energy.
For many, this obligation is an additional burden in a daily life already saturated with formalities. Far from simplifying their lives, it makes them more complex. And it is precisely the smallest actors — craftsmen, freelancers, liberal professions — who bear the heaviest burden.
Increased dependence on platforms and intermediaries
By imposing digital standards and specific formats, the State indirectly pushes the self-employed toward private solutions — paid software, invoicing platforms, certified service providers. This dependence creates a new ecosystem where the self-employed lose even more control over their activity.
What was once simple — issuing an invoice — becomes a structured, standardized process, dependent on tools that are sometimes opaque. We are witnessing a silent privatization of essential functions, to the benefit of technological actors who thrive on regulatory constraints.
An attack on economic freedom
At the heart of the issue lies a fundamental question: how far can the State go in controlling individual economic activity? Mandatory electronic invoicing crosses a red line. It does not merely regulate, it frames, monitors, and conditions.
This is no longer regulation, it is supervision.
The self-employed becomes an executor in a system where every action must comply with a technical standard defined from above. This is no longer regulation, it is supervision.
A drift that must be stopped
At Révolution, we reject this logic imposed by the European Union, which once again plays into the hands of globalization. We refuse that modernity be used as a pretext for the expansion of state control. We refuse that the self-employed be treated as potential fraudsters. We refuse a society where economic freedom is sacrificed on the altar of total traceability.
The abolition of mandatory electronic invoicing must be put forward as a clear political demand. Yes to voluntary simplification. No to authoritarian imposition. Yes to trust. No to systematic surveillance.
Because behind this reform lies far more than a technical change: it is a vision of society. And this vision, we fight against just as we fight against the European Union whose decisions never improve the quality of life of our fellow citizens but always add more rules, more controls, more difficulties.
