The Consumer Electronic Show, which was just held in Las Vegas, attracts every year more enterprises, and not only start-ups, as media interest. It is shown there the new products and services which will be offered to consumers and which will make their inventors rich. Countries are also looking after a showcase of their dynamism there. France is not the last one because we are praising ourselves to be an innovating nation: the number of French enterprises which are making the trip put us at the second place, after the U.S. So France would have become a start-up country ...

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Among the three causes generally quoted to understand the French crisis, wrong economic choices, mistakes made about fuels taxation and executive power communication policy, this last one is, definitely, the deepest. When concerns regarding communication are taking the priority against an efficient management of public affairs that leads to disastrous results. France is today going through this regrettable experience. Everything has started in the course of 2018 with announcements regarding tax increases on gasoline and diesel for the next four years. These measures were justified by environmental as budgetary reasons. They couldn’t avoid deeply hurting concerned people, i.e ...

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2018 has surprised. The 2017 year had come to the end in good conditions. It was “planets alignment” with a very low oil price, interest rates near zero and a favorable global environment. French growth reached its highest level for a long time: during 2017 2^nd half, it had been near 3%, on annualized rate. That did not last. International tensions increased all along the year with the promise of a trade war between China and the U.S., an unprecedented hostility of the American president toward Europe and a brutal rebound of oil prices. Inflation was making a ...

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