It is obviously not a chance if the Russian assault against Ukraine has been launched the day after the closing ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. The attention of the world must not being diverted. China saw in that ceremony an opportunity to increase its international influence.  And Moscow wanted to protect the priviledged links the Russian leaders had with their Chinese couterparts. The Vladimir Poutine presence during the inauguration, when he had not left his country since the beginning of the pandemic, had been an other symbolic gest revealing his will to be sure, if not of ...

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An electoral campaign frequently consists for the candidates in proclaiming that all what has been done for thirty and even forty years is a failure after another one. A candidate went even to pretend that one of the previous presidents had put the French economy into the worst situation. Three recent or forecast events and devoted to examples of major France successes show to which point all these declarations are without any basis and so are misleading.

Last year, in September was celebrated the 40th anniversary of the putting into operation of the Paris-Lyon High-Speed train line. That putting into ...

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At the end of February, inflation, year-on-year in France reached 3.6 %. This month alone, consumption prices had increased by 0.7% after 0.3% in January. If we use the harmonized calculation mode defined by the European rules, inflation has been during that period 4.1%, an unknown level for thirty years. The main cause has been the increase of the energy prices (+21% on one year) resulting from geopolitical tensions because the costs production increases had not yet been completely passed to the other categories of goods and services. In the United States, inflation year on year has ...

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