Archives Jan. 1, 2017

The president of the French Republic has warned his ministers: their next holidays will be limited to the strict minimum because the program of the government is so dense. That recommendation applies to the minister in charge of the ecological transition, Nicolas Hulot. He reminded it to him when he received him this week at the Elysée palace. To take into account environment is not only political stakes, it is an essential factor of the transformation of the society which will affect everybody’s behaviors, like, sixty years ago, holidays generalization, most of the time by the sea. It ...

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After the French president set the course of his action for the next five years and the Prime minister presented to the Parliament the main thrust of his economic policy, two questions need an answer: on which trend the French economy is today? Are considered actions appropriate to cope with the challenges the French economy is confronted?

During the 1^st quarter, growth estimation has been revised upward twice, from 0.3% to 0.5%. But in the INSEE calculus, the key element, volatile by definition, was the constitution of high inventories which hardly offset the negative contribution of foreign ...

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Each year, British Petroleum publishes statistics about energy production and consumption in every country. These statistics are an authority because of their accuracy and they allow us to confront political messages with reality in these highly important issues. The 2017 publication is especially interesting since it occurs in a troubled environment caused the retreat from the Paris Agreement decided by Donald Trump and just after the extension of the OPEC deal about the limitation of oil production by State members. The BP report brings elements of answers to these many questions which are on debate, especially in France.

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