At a time when divisions are being displayed in Europe and the United States, meetings are multiplying without any real results, in Tianjin and Beijing, the leaders of Russia and the main Asian countries are giving a completely different image of the world. The meeting of the states belonging to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, including China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Iran, was an opportunity to deliver messages of peace and fruitful collaboration between the members in complete contradiction with the prevailing climate among Western countries, largely due to the aggressive economic measures announced and sometimes implemented by Washington.

These meetings ...

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At a time when Parliament is debating a text on the country's energy sovereignty, highlighting the security of supply, the competitiveness of production tools and their contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, it is becoming clear that it is electricity that has played an essential role in the country's prosperity by meeting these requirements. But this is not new.

Nearly a century ago, the painter Raoul Dufy had produced, for the 1937 Universal Exhibition, on the order of the organizers, a set of a hundred paintings which, together, described the appearance of electricity in civilization. Portraits ...

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The International Energy Agency has just published its report on the consumption and production of electricity in the world. Growth was 4.2% and an average growth of 4% is forecast for the years 2025 to 2027. In three years, world production will increase by 3500 TWh. To assess the extent of this increase, it is sufficient to recall that France's annual production in recent years has averaged about 500 TWh per year. This growth is higher than the growth of the world economy, despite the efforts made in many countries to moderate their energy consumption. The world has ...

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