Each presidential election offers the opportunity, for the candidates qualified for the second round, to draw up the situation of the country and to formulate proposals. When one of the candidates is the current president, the debate is first about the evaluation of his action he assumes and defend before presenting what he intends to undertake if he is reelected. His opponent has then as a priority, to the opposite, to criticize it, frequently through a caricature, and to explain how he would do better thanks to his program. It is this debate which will be at the center of ...

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French people will elect its next President of the Republic April 10^th and 24^th  Only the two tops candidates after the 1^st round will be present in the 2^nd round. The electoral campaign occurs in an unprecedented context. The media attention is focused on the war in Ukraine. Comments regarding this election everyday are about the results of the last poll opinion and the candidates ranking, as if it was about the Tour de France, and about their personality. When they are interviewed, they are questioned first about their comments on actuality and much more rarely ...

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On March 31st 2022, the rate of the 10 years bond issued by the French State has reached 1,02%. At the beginning of the month, this rate was 0.43% and, a year ago, -0.35%. This rebound is not the consequence of investors mistrust about France due to a strongly growing indebtedness because it is general in the euro-zone and the spread with the German bond on the same maturity has little fluctuated around 40 basis points. It is more revealing of the financial markets moves about the anticipations of the European Central Bank action. The phenomenon is ...

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