You don’t appoint Rex Tillerson, the Exxon C.E.O by chance to lead the State Department. Oil and fossil fuels have always played an important role in American policy, when it comes to price issues or relations with producing countries, as it was during the Bush era, both the father and his son, who started their carrier in Texas, the most important producing State. Donald Trump is reviving the tradition. But the stakes are different because the world today became more complex, American production has evolved and the Middle East is put to fire and sword.

During the ...

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It is not any more an issue to know if Emmanuel Macron is François Hollande’s heir and if he must carry the responsibility of the possible mistakes committed in the past, when he comes into function. The political debate has taken place during the presidential campaign and French people have decided. It is necessary now, just before the coming into office of the new president to get a precise analysis of the situation of the French economy and to identify the challenges the country is confronted with.

France did not get out from a long period of quasi ...

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The debate about the consequences and the issues related to globalization was at the center of the final discussions of the presidential campaign, as it has been proved again during the pathetic confrontation between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. It will not end May 7^th and will continue during the political battle of the general elections which will start the day after. Until now, that debate has missed one essential issue: globalization will not stop if, because of their votes, French people declare they are hostile to it. This phenomenon is irreversible and it affects all the countries ...

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