When a holiday takes hold in the national landscape, no one can imagine that it could disappear one day from the calendar. This is obviously the case in particular for The Fourteenth of July, an occasion for fun, patriotism and celebration for more than two centuries,…
The horrible crime (a young girl tortured, raped, murdered) tried just now by the juvenile assize court of Haute Loire does not call for any compassion for the perpetrator. And the verdict, which sentenced him to life in prison, with virtually no possibility of release, is understandable…
The situation on global financial markets may be changing, with very significant consequences for all the different societies, once again giving evidence of the extraordinary interdependence of economies and nations of the world. And further proof that the current crisis is far from over…
Two seemingly distant events, come before us once more, and they tell us a lot about our times and our future: the sudden closure of state broadcaster ERT, a move that reportedly affects about 2,700 jobs and the battle to include or exclude the film and audiovisual industry in the major EU-US trade talks which will soon begin…
The tragic fight that led to the death of a young antifascist activist, who was involved in a fight with skinheads from a far-right groupuscule, is in itself just an isolated incident. And, like all weak signals, they are very difficult to interpret. We can see there, depending on how you look at it, the footprints of the violence initiated by extremists grafted onto protests against the marriage for all…
Today, If there are countries put forward as a model, for different reasons, it is indeed countries like Sweden and Turkey. Sweden for having the best social model in the world, for over half a century and for having reformed remarkably its public administration in 1993.
Print media today is not too dissimilar to the way it was 70 years ago. In some way, it is doing even much better: there are far more newspapers and readers in the world…
One of the most often repeated ideas, generally without understanding what is at stake, is to advocate the need to take account of the interest of future generations. But in fact, this is not how we behave: we live in the moment, unconcerned about leaving to future generations colossal debts and a rotten environment. …
