The media impact of economic news publications is mainly the result of their predictive nature. It is not new. Since the beginning of humanity, and astrology emergence can testify of it, men are obsessed by what may arrive to them and pay a lot of attention to those who pretend to tell it to them. The success of economics and of the economists is the current version of this phenomenon. There is not a single day without the release of economic forecasts. Due to the necessary delay to gather numbers we are at the point where we forecast or revise ...

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Germany is ageing. And this has consequences on the entire Europe since its needs of public investments are less urgent, its commitment in favor of environment less real, despite appearance, and its calls in favor of saving returns more insistent. At a time when, in France, we are amazed by the youth and the openness of out minister of Economy, -but is it going to last?-, in Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, 74 years old, receives a full support to protect the interest of aged people.

Germany has laid down its model until now with success, which is based on a ...

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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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