After having set out his rebound plan intended for supporting the French economy bounce back after the deep recession caused by the covid-19 epidemic, the government, last week has presented his finance bill project along with his social security bill project for the year 2021. These two texts give a first estimation, for the year 2020, of the consequences of the crisis, on public and social security finances, and the figures, open to be updated during the year, regarding expenditures and receipts for next year. So we start to have a more precise idea of the cost for public finances ...

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The environment evolution is based on unquestionable statistical data and on physical laws which have been elaborated and confirmed as centuries went by. Ecologists, them, are politicians. They are looking for pleasing electors or some economic interests which support them. They prefer announcements effects, unnecessarily alarmist or deliberately provocative messages to get attention and to be heard, and even to be invited to TV talk shows. Then governments have, or at least they believe it, to take into account their assertions, even when they are not based on anything, to take some of their proposals and, at the end, to ...

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Tensions between Greece and Turkey and the American sanctions against the completion of the Nordstream 2 pipe line in the North Sea are revealing with a full daylight the new importance and the geopolitical challenges linked to natural gas. 20^th century had been the oil century with major political and economic consequences. During the Twenties, the breaking up of the Ottoman Empire and the sharing, between Western powers of the territories where were located oil fields had, through the “Red Line Agreements” allowed oil majors emergence and guaranteed the supplying of Western countries. It was the oil embargo against ...

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