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2025 : the year of all dangers

There have been no examples in the recent past when the world was going to be confronted with so many situations carrying major risks, on the political or economic level, the latter often stemming from the former. The will to power of some heads of State has been at the origin of tensions and even wars in recent years, as we have seen with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The discontent provoked by the rise in unemployment and inequality, notably attributed to globalisation, has led to a strong increase in extremist parties at each election, leading them to the gates ...

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The nuclear energy revival

EDF, the French electricity utility, is connecting this week the Flamanville EPR nuclear reactor to the grid. That good news, yet, is accompanied by the usual negative comments regarding the exceptional length of the works (a 12 years delay) and the construction huge cost overruns (10 billion). If these points are undisputable, they must not mask another very positive reality for France which so has reestablished its capacity to build nuclear power plants. This one had been seriously affected by several major strategic mistakes.

There was first the refusal, at the end of the Nineties, by the successive governments to ...

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China : at last, the revival ?

After having announced, at the end of September, several measures intended to soften the consequences of the real estate crisis which hurts the country (reduction of the personal contribution and of the real estate loans rates and of the banks required reserves) and offered financial supports to local authorities for around 140 billion dollars, the Chinese government has just decided to make more accommodative the monetary policy for the first time for 14 years. It has left to understand that a support program of the household demand will be put into place in 2025. The Chinese president Xi Jinping, when ...

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