At a time when two major political crises are affecting the world, the war in Ukraine following its invasion by Russia and Israel's response to the massacres perpetrated by Hamas, the President of the United States was launching a trade war with an increase in customs duties imposed on all companies exporting to his country. It thus added to the disruption caused by these crises on supply chains an additional uncertainty that was detrimental to household consumption and business investment, and therefore to growth.

In doing so, Donald Trump broke with nearly a century of practices in favour of ...

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We remember the phrase attributed to General de Gaulle: "Brazil is a country of the future and it will remain so for a long time". Perhaps he was inspired by Stefan Zweig's book, "Brazil, Land of the Future", written in 1941 shortly after settling in the country to flee Nazism. The question is still relevant today, when we see the tremendous transformation that has taken place in China and the rapid growth that India is experiencing today. Why has a country with such large nature reserves and which offers the world exceptional writers, musicians or architects such as Oscar ...

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The International Energy Agency has just published its report on the consumption and production of electricity in the world. Growth was 4.2% and an average growth of 4% is forecast for the years 2025 to 2027. In three years, world production will increase by 3500 TWh. To assess the extent of this increase, it is sufficient to recall that France's annual production in recent years has averaged about 500 TWh per year. This growth is higher than the growth of the world economy, despite the efforts made in many countries to moderate their energy consumption. The world has ...

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