Tag: Ideas and debates
France-Morocco: The advantage of being a Frenchman of Arab origin, by Omar Youssef Souleimane
Before the World Cup, we were talking about boycotting the World Cup, or not watching any matches taking place in stadiums built by workers who worked in atrocious conditions. According…
Pierre Vermeren: “Even the Algerians would be very happy with a victory for Morocco”
This Wednesday evening, December 14, it’s more than a football match that will be played at the Al-Bayt stadium (Al-Khor), in the Qatari desert. For the first time, an Arab…
Would Karl Marx have fallen into oblivion without the October Revolution?
“He got high on his own cam”, “he talks nonsense, once again”, “a deeply disturbed individual, it is increasingly obvious”, “another elitist with a CV mediocre who mocks with contempt…
Bernard Lecomte: “Putin wants to freeze the conflict because he has time with him”
Former great reporter at L’Express, Bernard Lecomte has a sense of storytelling. Russia, where he served for more than ten years as a special envoy, provides him with the material.…
Anne Hidalgo is not the only person responsible for the circus in Paris, by Sylvain Fort
For a long time, a question hovered over the transformation of Paris by Anne Hidalgo. We wondered if there really was a plan. If behind all this, from a strange…
Splendors and miseries of the RER B: the reasons for a French malaise
To describe it, you would have to invent a color: something like nightmare blue. Line B of the RER indeed holds a sad record: it is the least punctual of…
War in Ukraine: “We will have to choose between a bloody war and an equally bloody peace”
“At some point, we will have to come back around a negotiating table”, judged Emmanuel Macron about the war in Ukraine, at the bend of the COP27 which was held…
Heritage of ministers: transparency, this great unhealthy unpacking
The publications of the High Authority for the transparency of public life are now of interest to the Café du Commerce. The government has 19 millionaires out of 43 members?…
The 1930s are not back… unless?
The Nazis are among us. The crisis returns. Nationalisms are gaining ground. The war is raging. We all know that. It is therefore very surprising that an authoritative voice has…
Boualem Sansal: “State management of secularism continues to be disastrous”
Since his tour in Germany where he presented his latest book, the Algerian writer and intellectual Boualem Sansal has answered our questions on French secularism. Where we are ? What…