Tag: Economic policy
Safran, BioNtech, Orange… How the discreet EIB finances major corporate projects
About 4,000 people, mostly based in Luxembourg, and several tens of billions of euros loaned each year. The European Investment Bank (EIB), a credit institution of the European Union, has…
Billionaires and taxes: it’s proven, France is not a den of “vampires”
“Every billionaire is a political failure,” Oxfam wrote recently. “They are vampires”, engaged Marine Tondelier, from Europe Ecologie Les Verts. To hear these powerful voices of economic science, we had…
Energy transition: who will foot the bill?
“Tax is good for everything”, this is what the public authorities have often summed up when faced with a large expense. To finance the energy transition, France Stratégie, the analysis…
“My journey into economic theories”: if you only had to read one book this year…
If you had to make the difficult choice to read only one economics book for the whole year, that of Edmund Phelps, My journey in economic theories, has every reason…
Industrial and economic downgrading: the origins of the French evil
The diagnosis is known. In 2000, France and Germany were almost equal. Twenty years later, the GDP per capita of France is 15% lower than that of Germany, the debt…
Fusion card Vitale-identity card: why health insurance is very reluctant
“Very strong reservations”. This is the opinion of Health Insurance on the plan to merge the identity card with the Vitale card envisaged by the government, according to an official…
PODCAST. What are rating agencies? The Express explains everything
This week, Arnaud Bouillin, editor-in-chief of the Economy department of L’Express, explains to us what rating agencies are, while the decision of the best known of them is awaited with…
French debt and Standard & Poor’s: all you need to know about rating agencies
Bercy is in turmoil. This Friday, June 2, the rating agency Standard & Poor’s must decide on the French economy. A month ago, its competitor Fitch lowered France’s rating to…
Rating of France: budgetary choices, it will however be necessary to make them!
We have to go back to the turbulent times of the sovereign debt crisis at the start of the 2010s for the decision of a rating agency to be so…
Nuclear, a French bankruptcy: thirty years of political cowardice and shaky compromises
Who would have believed it ? Described not so long ago as a holdover from the 20th century, the energy of the atom is once again enjoying favorable winds. In…