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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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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At the end of February, inflation, year-on-year in France reached 3.6 %. This month alone, consumption prices had increased by 0.7% after 0.3% in January. If we use the harmonized calculation mode defined by the European rules, inflation has been during that period 4.1%, an unknown level for thirty years. The main cause has been the increase of the energy prices (+21% on one year) resulting from geopolitical tensions because the costs production increases had not yet been completely passed to the other categories of goods and services. In the United States, inflation year on year has ...

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