Le rétablissement de l’équilibre du régime général des retraites constitue depuis près de trois ans un facteur majeur d’instabilité politique en France. La décision intervenue en 2023 de repousser l’âge légal du départ en retraite à 64 ans a généré un profond mécontentement qui n’a pas été sans conséquences sur le résultat des élections européennes de 2024. Les élections législatives qui ont suivi la dissolution décidée par le président de la République ont traduit à nouveau ce mécontentement ...

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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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We remember. That was in 1974. Richard Nixon had to resign as President of the United States. It was then proven that his party, with his support, had spied on his competitor, the Democratic candidate, in 1972 during the presidential campaign that had led him to the White House. The site of these misdeeds was a building located in Washington, the Watergate Office Building, hence the name, taken up by the media and today by the history of the scandal. Nearly twenty years later, President Clinton was accused of having had a sexual relationship with one of his aides, Monica ...

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