In a few days, the French government is going to announce the great lines of its project regarding the retirement system reform. It is a continuous point in the State concerns. Three years ago, a full reform trying to create a universal pension plan with points had been proposed and then abandoned in front of the concerned populations hostility. This reform has also as an objective to show, especially to its European partners, its willingness to control public expenditures at a time when, due to the several crisis France has known, the public deficit is very superior to the 3 ...

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The glorious Forties are well finished, that period during which developed countries economies had enjoyed prices stability. At the end of this 2022 year, inflation in all these countries, to the exception of China and Japan, will have reached between 7 and 11%, France being for one time the good pupils, ranked among the better with at the end of October, a harmonized rate of 7.1% following the European rules and 6.2% following its national definition. That long period had not yet been exempted of financial crisis, the three re-alignments of the Franc inside the European Monetary System ...

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The rapid rise of oil and natural gas prices following the sanctions against Russia after the Ukraine invasion has started in Europe an unprecedented inflationist wave for 40 years and the second oil crisis. The limits of renewables have been noted because their intermittent character makes the availability of power production capacities always indispensable. In France, the delays in the putting into production of the Flamanville EPR and of the achievements of the maintenance operations after the Covid-19 pandemic along with the outbreak of corrosion phenomenon have provoked a 30% fall of the nuclear power production and have compelled the ...

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