De toute évidence, la hausse des impôts dans le budget 2014, inévitable après une décennie de baisse, est un fiasco : le gouvernement est revenu sur des hausses décidées par le gouvernement précédent, et qu’il aurait fallu engranger…
In the last two decades, the world has changed; it is about time people realized this and be made fully aware of this fact. In particular, the need to understand the consequences of the great expansion of individual freedom worldwide, and everything else that comes with it: the market economy and democracy.
Among the arguments that can attract voters’ attention toward an extremist party, (and in France especially toward the National Front) the most destructive, one that can capture the attention of the greatest number of good and decent people is the following: for decades everything has been tried, the right and the left. The left with floor crossers from the right…
Although politicians, central bankers and financial markets would like to believe, and have us believe that the global economic crisis is over, at least in the United States, now it bounces back dramatically…
The issue of Sunday work, preposterous in most of the countries of the world, is raised ferociously in France today. Indeed almost everywhere, it is authorized, at least for small shops in tourist destinations, and increasingly for other professions…
Among obvious truths all too often heard and that have never been challenged, there is a belief that an unpopular government is a government that fails…
As the Oslo Accords celebrate its 20th anniversary (which allowed the assumption that through direct negotiation between Palestinians and Israelis this could lead to the creation of a viable Palestinian State, and to the recognition of the State of Israel by the Arab states, within secure borders)…
The mood of today’s France seems very difficult to discern. In fact, it is taking shape with precision, in hollow, through the French people response to the most significant events of recent days…
