Paris, Jan. 21 -- Prof. Le Van Cuong, Honorary Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Honorary Professor at the Paris School of Economics, has singled out institutional reform as the top priority, believing that the economic orientations outlined at the ongoing 14th National Party Congress hold long-term significance for Vietnam's medium-and long-term development path.

Talking with Vietnam News Agency's reporters based in Paris, Cuong argued that Vietnam needs a profound reorientation in legal philosophy, from an approach in which entities are allowed to do only what is explicitly permitted to one in which they are free to do anything not prohibited by law. This change, he said, will be foundat...