During a long period of time, energy policies were following economic or strategic considerations : to exploit natural resources the best possible way for those which had them, to guarantee supply security, to support the development of industrial sectors bringing a relative independence accompanied with job creations and exports which resulted from them. This time seems to be over in some countries like Germany and France where “turnarounds” in energy policies have been largely influenced by political considerations.

Angela Merkel CDU is much less strong than it is generally believed. It governs thanks to an alliance with Bavaria CSU but it ...

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Le 8 janvier prochain, à Jarnac, sera commémoré le vingtième anniversaire de la mort de François Mitterrand et le 26 octobre les cent ans de sa naissance. Ces évènements seront l’occasion de la publication de nombreux ouvrages, parfois critiques, n’en doutons pas, mais qui tous reconnaîtront la dimension historique de cet homme qui aura marqué la vie politique française durant la deuxième moitié du XXème siècle. 

En même temps, nos dirigeants, c’est devenu une sorte de tic de langage, à l’approche de chaque échéance électorale, vont stigmatiser ...

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2015 hasn’t been a year as any. Oil, Yuan, Fed, Europe and France have known majors turning points. Some of them will generate structural evolutions which will affect the world economy at least for its next ten years.

Oil, first. 2015 has brought the confirmation that price fall observed at the end of 2014 was not only the result of geostrategic choices, Gulf States, with Sunnite predominance, willing to weaken Shiite Iran and the United States trying to cut Russian resources after Ukrainian crisis. OPEC decision to maintain the level of its production, confirmed a year later, was the ...

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