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The last two motions of censure having been rejected in the National Assembly like the four previous ones, the Prime Minister is strengthened and France, for the first time since the dissolution of 2024, has a government with a certain stability and a budget that allows the State to function. On the economic front, INSEE has published the first estimate of GDP growth for 2025. With 0.9%, it is certainly far from having returned to the past rhythms but given the international context and the political instability in the country, this result is reassuring. However, it is insufficient to ...
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Colonization has been, over the centuries, a historical phenomenon with major consequences. The Roman Empire, and even long before that, its Chinese counterpart, expanded their territories and brought their language and culture. At the end of the Middle Ages, the European nations imposed their domination on the New Continent and as far as Asia. What animated the leaders was above all their desire for power. Gradually, the security of trade routes and access to raw materials that these states lacked were additional motivations.
Decolonization began at the end of the eighteenth century with the creation of the United States, facilitated ...
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Eric Lu, a young American of Taiwanese origin, has just been awarded the Chopin Prize, the highest distinction for a pianist. He succeeds Yundi-Li, born in Chongqing, who had obtained it at the age of 18 a few years earlier, and Seong-Jincho, a South Korean national. They follow in the footsteps of Beijing-born Yuja-Wang and Lang Lang, a native of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning, who have become two of the most beloved pianists on the planet. China has almost half of the world's piano players, and it's no surprise that its artists have been able to seduce ...
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This concept was born in the United States and is starting to appear in Europe thanks to several articles in the Financial Times. What is it about? A new economic model where, structurally, its components would evolve in a divergent way. In the letter K, one branch is facing upwards and the other facing downwards. In the K-economy, part of the population sees its income and wealth increase while those of the rest of the population decrease continuously, hence a structural increase in inequality.
In the United States, in recent years, it has become much more difficult for a large ...
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Le nouvel Etat-stratège
Le dernier livre d'Alain Boublil, le nouvel Etat-statège (Editions de l'Archipel) est paru le 5 février 2014.
Le livre apporte les réponses de son auteur à la question qui est, en France, au centre de tous les débats politiques: "Que peut-on attendre de l'Etat aujourd'hui ? " Et il formule plusieurs suggestions sur l'exercice du pouvoir tirées de son expérience passée auprès de François Mitterrand. Observateur de l'économie mondiale comme conseil des nombreuses grandes entreprises qui ont fait appel à lui, il trace un portrait de la France d'aujourd'hui bien moins pessimiste que ce que l'on entend parfois, à condition que chacun fasse preuve de lucidité sur ses propres comportements.
Les exigences ont certes été exacerbées par la crise. Mais y faire face est de plus en plus difficile car l'écart s'est creusé entre les attentes de chacun et la réduction des marges de manoeuvres publiques du fait des règles internationales, de l'endettement et des contraintes environnementales.
En dix chapitres, Alain Boublil dresse un bilan sans complaisances, prend la mesure des possibilités et des limites de l'Etat et il ouvre des voies nouvelles pour l'action publique. Il évoque le sauvetage de l'euro, le fardeau de la dette et le ras-le-bol fiscal, l'Etat-patron de Colbert à Jean-Marie Messier, le retour du complexe vis-à-vis de l'Allemagne et les nouveaux outils de l'Etat-stratège dans la mondialisation face aux défis industriels, aux enjeux de la transition énergétique, à la "dictature du CO2" et à la révolution du gaz de schiste. Et il met en garde contre les dérives de l'Etat-spectacle, qui gènent l'efficacité de l'action publique et les facilités de l'Etat-guichet qui débouchent sur le clientélisme.
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2/02/2026
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The last two motions of censure having been rejected in the National Assembly like the four previous ones, the Prime Minister is strengthened and France, for the first time since the dissolution of 2024, has a government with a certain stability and a budget that allows the State to function. On the economic front, INSEE has published the first estimate ...
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