The sanitary crisis had already shown the unsuitability of the European rules in the energy area. The break of several supply chains had provoked tensions on fossil fuels which were, especially in France, passed on power prices. The States had to intervene to protect the purchasing power and the situation of enterprises whose production costs would be weighted down.To that already fragile situation are added now the consequences of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia which is one of the main supplier of fossil fuels of Europe. Its exports constitute an essential source of revenue and allow to financing ...

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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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