Tag: Economic policy
Pensions, a “hidden deficit”? Finally, the debate opens on the figures of the COR
Will the critics of the work of the Pensions Orientation Council (COR) win their case? The victory is not acquired, but a door opens. The body created in 2000, and…
Atos in crisis: the computer giant sells its historic branch to Daniel Kretinsky
Another great operation in France for Daniel Kretinsky. Already involved in the rescue of the distributor Casino, the Czech billionaire should acquire the historic and heavily indebted branch of the…
Taylor Swift: a lesson in economics, by Nicolas Bouzou
There is no general economic crisis in the music sector, but an extreme polarization of positions with, at the very bottom of the pyramid, a very large majority of artists…
Faced with the United States, Europe is choosing economic stall, by Nicolas Bouzou
On July 17, the American daily wall street journal (WSJ) caused a sensation, for once, in Europe. On the front page of the newspaper, a paper by Tom Fairless explains,…
Michel Barnier: “Europe has a responsibility in voting in favor of the extremes”
Politics and future European elections, Michel Barnier does not want to talk about it. But there is no doubt that he is thinking about it while shaving in the morning…
Fiona Scott Morton case: the ideological confrontation that is cracking the European Commission
This is a new controversy that Europe would have done well: the appointment of the American Fiona Scott Morton to the post of chief economist of the Directorate General for…
Climate: what if we finally welcomed the good news?
On July 11, the World Meteorological Organization announced that the world had just experienced its hottest week on record. The daily record would have been reached on July 7 with…
Full employment bill: the green light from the Senate
The Senate with a right-wing majority adopted at first reading on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday the bill “for full employment”, which must put in place a more directive…
Full employment bill: what the text examined in the Senate contains
The debates promise to be heated in the Senate this week. The bill “for full employment” arrived this Monday, July 10 in first reading at the Luxembourg Palace. This text…
Livret A: the coming rise and the tyranny of the short term
Political considerations sometimes invite themselves into the icy straightness of mathematical equations. This has been the case in recent days with the thorny issue of the remuneration of the Livret…