During 71 years, the BP group has published accurate statistics about energy production and consumption country by country and for each energy source. Now, this mission has been granted to the Energy Institute which has just revealed the 2022 results. The year has been characterized by growth slowing everywhere in the world except in India, after the rebound occurred in 2021 coming after the deep recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. 2022 has also been affected by the oil and natural gas supply chains perturbations after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions decided by the Western countries ...

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Europe is capable of the best as of the worst. Without talking about the peace which reigns for near 80 years over its people, an unprecedent fact in history, and when war is close to its doors, the creation of the euro has constituted an exceptional success. The move to the unique currency, which was posing many technical problems, was perfectly achieved. Thanks to euro the States-members of the euro zone have been able to go through many crisis occurred for twenty years. The European Central Bank has allowed to financing without difficulties the measures taken by each State to ...

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The signal of the economic activity degradation and even in some cases, of a recession, as in Germany, and of the slowing of inflation, have not dissuaded the Central Banks, apart from China, from going on with increasing their rates or with announcing future increases. The chairman of the Federal Reserve in Washington has not proceeded to an eleventh rise in June but he gave to understand that other increases will occur before the year end. The European Central Bank, to the opposite, has proceeded July 15^th to an eighth increase of 25 basis points and its chairman, Christine ...

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