Instead of going to rest at Bregançon or at Marrakech, French political leaders would have been better inspired to go to Sienna. Inside the Palazzo Pubblico, they would have been able to admire the Ambroggio Lorenzetti large fresco, the Allegory of the good and of the bad government. On the wall located at the right of the central panel where are sit the Ministers, is represented a peaceful and prosperous city where happy inhabitants are walking, located in the middle of a campaign where fields are well maintained and where olive trees are growing. On the left, to the ...

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Crises are not always financial ones. They can hurt an industrial sector and if this one is important as the car industry in France and even more in Germany, that can have repercussions on the whole economy. Our country has already had that experience in the Seventies and the Eighties with plant closures and massive redundancies in the steel industry or with telecommunications twenty years later when the rise of the mobile phones has affected all the information treatment and transmission systems. These crises have provoked the disappearance or the passage under foreign control of national industry jewels. The car ...

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The very heavy rains which recently happened in the South-East of France have been interpreted, as in every meteorological event, as being the consequence of climate warming. That has contributed to an increased mobilization in favor of environment. They have also been at the origin of power cuts which have, in some cases, last several days, heavily affecting the daily life of habitants. Two lessons can be got from these events.

There is first the night and day commitment of the teams, who are in charge of putting back in activity networks and taking care of their good working. It ...

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