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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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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You don’t appoint Rex Tillerson, the Exxon C.E.O by chance to lead the State Department. Oil and fossil fuels have always played an important role in American policy, when it comes to price issues or relations with producing countries, as it was during the Bush era, both the father and his son, who started their carrier in Texas, the most important producing State. Donald Trump is reviving the tradition. But the stakes are different because the world today became more complex, American production has evolved and the Middle East is put to fire and sword.

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