La baisse des taux à long terme s’est accélérée au mois de février et ils ont retrouvé leur niveau le plus bas depuis avril 2015. C’est d’abord le signe que les marchés considèrent la  France comme l’un des pays les plus solvables au monde. L’écart avec l’Allemagne reste compris suivant les jours entre 30 et 40 points de base. Mais la baisse des taux résulte aussi des anticipations des investisseurs qui parient désormais sur un nouvel assouplissement de la politique monétaire de la BCE au mois ...

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During a long period of time, energy policies were following economic or strategic considerations : to exploit natural resources the best possible way for those which had them, to guarantee supply security, to support the development of industrial sectors bringing a relative independence accompanied with job creations and exports which resulted from them. This time seems to be over in some countries like Germany and France where “turnarounds” in energy policies have been largely influenced by political considerations.

Angela Merkel CDU is much less strong than it is generally believed. It governs thanks to an alliance with Bavaria CSU but it ...

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Government satisfaction expressed during last council of Ministers at the Elysée palace this week, after the publication of the first estimation of 4th quarter (+0.2%) and last year (+1,1%) growth was not justified. Official comments which were accompanying it gave a too favorable presentation of the reality. They were not convincing since they depend on the basis of the comparison. The result is higher than in 2014 (+0.2%) but it was not very difficult. On the opposite, our major competitors did much better, the U.S. and the U.K. both were around 2.5% and ...

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