Usually, when we talk about deficit regarding the French economy, it is first the State budget one. We even were satisfied with its light reduction in 2022 compared to the initial forecasts. It has been revised downward and has so reached 147 billion when was expected at the end of last year a deficit near 170 billion. To the opposite the increase at an unprecedent level of the trade deficit, which is a much more revealing and worrying indicator of the weaknesses of the French economy, has given place to few comments. At the end of February, for the last ...

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It is not only in politics that the wrong ideas are prospering, in economy too and they have a hard life. Forty years ago, the 3^rd Mauroy government, after its reshuffle, announced measures which will be qualified as a rigor plan or as the “rigor turnaround”, along with a third realignment inside the European Monetary System. It is then interpreted by the opposition of the right as the recognition of the failure of the economic policy followed since the election of François Mitterrand and still today by a part of the left as a treason and the submission ...

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The climate warming is attributable to the emissions of greenhouse gas which are caused by human activities, in the first position of which are the production and the utilization of energy. It is, which is rarely mentioned, a global phenomenon. It is the action of all the States which is important and there is no relation between the behavior of a country and the damages it could suffer on its territory. To the opposite, its action will profit to everybody in proportion with the share it occupies in the whole emissions. In that way, if France reaches its carbon neutrality ...

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