“Fueled by a just-in-time economy, maritime transport remains fragile”

2023-12-18 05:15:03 FShould he hoist the white flag to cross the Red Sea? Or, safer, avoid the perilous Bab Al-Mandab Strait, this 27 kilometer wide “gate of lamentations” which opens access to the southern entrance to the Suez Canal? It is not good to sail around here. After several days of hesitation, the major European … Read more

In Beijing, the China-European Union summit promises to be difficult

2023-12-05 20:00:10 Lhe Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and the Prime Minister, Li Qiang, will receive in Beijing, on December 7, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, for a new China summit -European Union (EU). In April 2022, the previous summit, which was … Read more

“Other fears have supplanted that of unemployment, which fuel a generalized climate of mistrust in the country”

2023-12-05 04:30:16 LThere was incomprehension in the words of the Head of State who, speaking on Tuesday November 28 at the Sea Economy Conference, reacted to the ambient music according to which a milestone was missing in this second five-year term: “It turns out that I have been at the helm for a little over … Read more

The Consent: A Cinematic Phenomenon Shaking the Industry

2023-11-17 03:00:13 This is a confusing and unpredictable movement. Also new. Young people flock to the cinema in droves to see The consentadaptation of Vanessa Springora’s bestseller, published by Grasset in 2020, recounting the sexual and moral influence that the writer Gabriel Matzneff put her through when she was 14 and he was 50. Today, … Read more

“The time is no longer for great decoupling with China, but for risk mitigation”

2023-11-16 05:30:07 Lhe globalization regularly gives rise to concept words in the language of commerce, English, which are as illuminating on its state as on that of its observers. For some time now, many have been talking about « de-risking »which could be translated as “risk mitigation”. While alerts linked to geopolitics and climate are increasing on … Read more

“Joe Biden’s economic record is not a sufficient argument for the Democrats to win the American presidential election”

2023-11-13 03:00:02 UA slogan does not take stock. Joe Biden is learning this the hard way. For several months, the President of the United States has been traveling the country to praise “Bidenomics”, a generic name that he has appropriated to designate the economic policy pursued for almost three years. But, while he plans to … Read more

“Africans fear not having their say at a time when the rules of the game of globalization in crisis are being rewritten”

2023-11-09 06:00:09 Ct was the expression used to describe the painful 1980s and 1990s in sub-Saharan Africa: the “lost decades”. Way of summarizing the procession of financial and social crises experienced at the time by countries suffering the repercussions of the fall in raw material prices and the rise in interest rates in the United … Read more

“After the conflict in Ukraine, the war between Israel and Hamas in turn threatens to slow down already anemic global growth”

2023-11-06 08:06:35 LUkraine, Gaza… Geopolitics has regained its rights and is once again dictating its law to the economy. After the conflict at the gates of the European Union which disrupts supply chains and energy flows, the war between Israel and Hamas in turn threatens to slow down global growth already anemic by the slowdown … Read more