I don't think we should follow Chirac in framing this in nationalist terms, particularly when the only firm conclusions I can come to given these stats are:

1. Both the UK and France are incredibly affluent countries.
   
2. Their economic performance is roughly the same.

The one stark difference is in unemployment and poverty numbers. As someone else points out, France has relatively high unemployment but low poverty, and the UK has the reverse. France has made an economic choice to make tackling poverty more important than providing jobs, with resulting higher unemployment. That's neither better nor worse, I don't think. It's a difference in social priorities given two difficult choices. I tend to favor the French approach, probably because I live in the US and am disillusioned with the low unemployment/high poverty model it shares with the UK. But I can see advantages to both socio-economic models.