The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has disrupted the oil and natural gas supply in many countries and have made wake up of the necessity to grant security to the power production. The prices increases which have resulted from that have forced the States to adopt measures which were costly for their public finances to protect consumers and to permit the survival of enterprises, confronted with production and operating costs increases which they couldn’t pass on to their clients; The choice, consisting in betting on renewables to take over from fossil energies revealed itself wrong, Germany brought the proof ...

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During 2013, the Chinese government launched an ambitious program of international investments and partnerships, the New Silk Roads. The historic reference was obvious. More than 1000 years ago, the Middle Empire had created inside the country the necessary transportation modes to dispatch towards Central Asia and then towards Europe the silk and the objects made with porcelain which were prized by local aristocracies. These connections were then extended through maritime links towards the Africa Eastern coasts, mainly dedicated to the raw materials trades. So were born the Silk Roads. That year, in order to well showing how the new project ...

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At a moment when, coming at the invitation of the president of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, the international economic leaders and the economists gather at Jackson Hole, uncertainties about the evolution of the world economy during the end of the year have increased. The progressive discharge of the effects of the Covid-19, the mastering of the fossil fuels flows affected by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the stabilization of the relationship between the United States and China have not been enough to reestablish a trust climate, indispensable for the return to growth in the developed countries as ...

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