Tag: Economic policy
Gasoline prices: the French paid more in 1973
There are birthdays we would rather forget. 1,500 tanks, 222 bombers and nearly 300,000 men: on October 6, 1973, the troops of Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat crossed the Suez Canal…
Supplementary pensions: the agreement turns into a political crisis
A new battle is opening between the government and the social partners. After five weeks of intense negotiations, the unions and employers managing the supplementary pension plan for private sector…
Nagorno-Karabakh: “Azerbaijan is a marginal partner for the EU”
Convictions, but no sanctions for the moment. Baku’s offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, has caused a stir but has not yet had any consequences on commercial relations…
Mendès France and inflation: “For him, it was firstly linked to the absence of political choices”
Biographer of the politician (Pierre Mendès France. For a modern Republic, Armand Colin, 2015) and professor at the Sciences Po history center, Alain Chatriot unearthed a fascinating document published on…
Motorway tax: this “clause” which raises fears of a surge in prices
The Minister of the Economy’s return to politics is busy with many trade-offs to make. After having rejected its appeal to distributors to sell fuel at a loss, it is…
Highways and airports: why they are against the tax project
Bad news for highway and airport concession companies. Despite their opposition, the finance bill, presented this Wednesday, September 27 to the Council of Ministers, does include a levy on surplus…
Public deficit: France, still a poor European student
France, still among the worst performers in the European Union in terms of public finances? Despite Bruno Le Maire’s promises to begin “deleveraging France” from the next fiscal year, the…
Budget 2024: the government’s impossible equation
In politics too, the future can be embodied in a simple equation. With the arrival of autumn, the National Assembly will celebrate the return of budgetary debates around the finance…
Greece: Stefanos Kasselakis, a repentant trader at the head of the radical left
Barely a few weeks ago, a former employee of Goldman Sachs appeared on the Greek political scene. Already a truculent detail when we remember that the American bank had helped…
These highway projects which crystallize opposition
On September 14, Thomas Brail, a native of Tarn, took up residence at 246 boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, just opposite the headquarters of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Sitting on…