6 January 2014
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Facing flooding
France is a strange country. She has known, for at least a thousand years, that she is a flood-prone country. She has experienced flooding many times in her history, sometimes in dramatic ways…
23 December 2013
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Let’s have a dream
2014 is shaping up to be a bad year: across the world, even though there seems to be the outline at the horizon of the resumption of economic growth and the recovery in investment…
16 December 2013
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The current global economic crisis is like any other war
Throughout the developed world, and in France in particular, economic crises are managed very differently. Wars are managed simply and effectively…
9 December 2013
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Nelson Mandela: What if he was the « last of the great men »?
The death of Nelson Mandela, though long-anticipated, provoked nonetheless an unprecedented worldwide outpouring of emotion…
2 December 2013
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Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
France’s ranking in the latest set of results from the 2012 data collection (PISA 2012), which evaluates the knowledge and skills of the world’s 15-year-olds, is more catastrophic than ever…
25 November 2013
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The tyranny of transparency
Vint Cerf, the « Internet’s father », just caused a scandal by recalling, with hard-hitting words, the consequences of the dictatorship of transparency, given some of the current trends in the new social networking platforms. For him, the right to privacy may eventually prove to be a parenthesis in human history…
18 November 2013
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Housing a key issue
Nothing is more revealing of a country’s mentalities than its attitude towards housing. In France, property is sacred, and housing remains scarce, and expensive. Far more expensive than elsewhere in Europe…
