Energy is a strategic sector for the economic life as well as for the independence of a country. The State, all over the world, intervenes to ensure the security of supplies and to ensure that companies and households have access to them at prices that do not affect their competitiveness and protect their purchasing power. The sector is also essential for the environment. The production and consumption of the various forms of energy must limit as much as possible the release of particles that are harmful to the health of the inhabitants living in the vicinity as well as the ...

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At a time when divisions are being displayed in Europe and the United States, meetings are multiplying without any real results, in Tianjin and Beijing, the leaders of Russia and the main Asian countries are giving a completely different image of the world. The meeting of the states belonging to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, including China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Iran, was an opportunity to deliver messages of peace and fruitful collaboration between the members in complete contradiction with the prevailing climate among Western countries, largely due to the aggressive economic measures announced and sometimes implemented by Washington.

These meetings ...

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At a time when Parliament is debating a text on the country's energy sovereignty, highlighting the security of supply, the competitiveness of production tools and their contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, it is becoming clear that it is electricity that has played an essential role in the country's prosperity by meeting these requirements. But this is not new.

Nearly a century ago, the painter Raoul Dufy had produced, for the 1937 Universal Exhibition, on the order of the organizers, a set of a hundred paintings which, together, described the appearance of electricity in civilization. Portraits ...

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