Peu de comparaisons sérieuses ont été faites entre la chute, semble-t-il réussie, des dictatures à l’Est de l’Europe et les innombrables échecs des printemps arabes. En principe, on aurait pu espérer les mêmes résultats…
The heatwave that Europe is experiencing today does not just affect the daily life of vacationists. It is also a reminder of the climate change we face and takes us back to the influence of climates on our civilizations, which Aristotle, Montesquieu, and later Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, with others, framed the theory…
A new ideological and geostrategic discourse is appearing in the American political, economic and military ruling circles. Faced with the rise of Chinese power, which will soon become, inevitably, the world’s largest economic power, in terms of production, we are now hearing a new speech in Washington…
Les partis d’extrême gauche et d’extrême droite font tout pour apparaitre distincts ; et leurs différences sont évidemment majeures, sur un point au moins : leur attitude à l’égard de l’immigration. Pour autant, ils ont de plus en plus de points communs tant dans la forme que sur le fonds…
While so many major reforms are waiting to be taken from the sidings, some law proposals recently examined by the Council of Ministers are puzzling, or shocking. This is the case for the law proposal which authorises faculty members to teach in a foreign language in our French universities and Grandes Écoles…
No, Beppe Grillo is not Coluche. Michel Colucci would never have argued that “AIDS is the greatest hoax of the century”, made up by the West, denying the fact that it is a transmissible virus. Neither would have claimed without any proof, that a respected Italian neurologist …
The Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group of opposition political forces, has just turned down invitations to visit Washington and Moscow and suspended its participation in the Rome conference for the « Friends of Syria », in protest at the absence of a reaction from these « friends » over the destructions, by missile strikes from Assad’s armies…
British Prime Minister David Cameron, by asking to renegotiate the European Union Treaty, before giving Britons a straight referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave, is applying Groucho Marx’s famous dictum: “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”..
2013, a year without elections in France, started with a bang: a welcome agreement on job market reform, some high-risk military operations in Africa, where the destiny of France is decided, and protests against same-sex marriage…
