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…
11 November 2013
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The euro and the Montgolfier balloon
The fate of Europe is now heavily dependent on the apparently technical question of the excessive current value of the euro, against all other major currencies, and this is an accurate reflection of the unfortunate strategic vacuum of the euro zone…
4 November 2013
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A forgotten war
While we spend our time arguing about small matters in Europe, in Africa, far from the view of the television cameras and diplomats, one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II is dragging on…
28 October 2013
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Tirer la leçon
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…
21 October 2013
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A changing world
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.
