Just twenty years ago, France, for the first time won the soccer World Cup. Next Sunday, its team may win the right to have a second star on its shirt. 1998 victory contributed during a few years, to strengthen the country cohesion thanks to a team which gathered players with diverse origins : the “blacks”, the “whites” and the “beurs” coming from North Africa to which we could have added the “basks”, coming from Basque country. It was also given this success for a significant contribution to the strong economic growth France enjoyed until 2002, a result which has not been ...

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The trip the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will make to China next week carries a much more strategic character than it seems at first sight. It starts in the South, in the city of Shenzhen which was the birthplace of the economic revolution launched by Deng Xiaoping almost forty years ago and where stands one of the few monuments elevated to honor his memory. He will go after to Shanghai, the financial hub of the country and ends in Beijing, due to protocol reasons. The trip comes in a context of a bitter trade crisis with the U.S ...

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The respite occurred on financial markets after the appointment of the new Italian government should not delude people. The fall of the Spanish government, even if it has not happened after disagreements about European issues can generate new tensions. The first meetings between these new leaders and Brussels must be watched with attention. Europe is taken in a stranglehold between internal dissent which is increasing everyday and a hostile international environment, worsened by the last decisions of the Trump administration. The project is under threat. It is not the first time. France has no choice. Its action will be decisive ...

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