On the same week, the Church gave itself a pope. A president was elected in China. Pope Francois. President Xi Jining. Both using very similar organisational and selection methods: a pyramidal structure, where top level appointments are based on merit, to the top…
Everything shows that we are moving towards a paroxysm of imbalances, and no retraction force seems to be taking shape to bring us back towards equilibrium…
A German court has just ruled that Facebook has a right to force people to use their real names, contradicting the Privacy Protection Authority of Schleswig-Holstein, that says the right to use pseudonyms is guaranteed by the German and European legislations on the fundamental right to freedom of expression…
If all the Churches are so upset over the issue of marriage for all, it is not so much because that the rights and privileges of the union before the mayor will thus be extended to couples of the same sex, but rather because religious authorities are horrified by the use of the word “marriage” in respect of this union…
In order to understand where a nation is going, economic projections are generally used, those of the GDP essentially, and much uncertainty exists as to its likely value. Many other parameters will tell more about the future of a country than just virtual statistics…
While public debates in all the official European palaces focus on the impossible management of the public debt, whose moratorium we shall have to consider daring to organize one day, lenders, are increasingly interested in another issue: the labor market…
Parmi les innombrables sujets en suspens en Europe, il en est un, dont on ne parle pas assez et qui est pourtant déterminant pour l’avenir : le programme Erasmus, qui permet à des étudiants d’aller étudier six mois dans un autre pays de l’Union…
En ces temps de réflexion sur les libertés nouvelles que chacun pourrait se voir accorder, il en est une, à laquelle nul ne réfléchit assez, à mon sens, qui concerne l’identité Pourquoi faudrait-il accepter le nom, et le prénom que nos parents nous imposent ?…
