“Unemployment insurance is too precious a budgetary resource to be eliminated”

2023-12-09 12:00:02 VWanting to reform unemployment insurance is always a difficult exercise. Cutting rights, on the other hand, turns out to be a much easier task to justify with some false evidence, and always pays off. But why, in these conditions, not follow this “logic” to the end and eliminate unemployment insurance: wouldn’t full employment … Read more

“Mr. President, your opinion on palliative care and active assistance in dying cannot be the only compass”

2023-12-09 09:00:05 MDear President of the Republic, a year ago, on your initiative, the work of the citizens’ convention on the end of life (CCFV) began. In April 2023, when submitting our report, welcomed by a large number of observers, you made a double commitment on the subject of palliative care and active assistance in … 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

“With this new law, the French will have immense difficulty accessing GMO-free food”

2023-12-04 16:00:10 Lhe European Commission is preparing to open the doors of the European Union (EU) to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) resulting from new genomic techniques (NTG) by exempting them from the obligations and controls imposed on GMOs. If this bill is passed, foods containing new GMOs will no longer be subject to a risk … 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 primacy of the Party justifies all sacrifices, including economic ones”

2023-12-05 12:52:29 Matthew Pottinger, former China advisor to the White House, recently drew up, in a column, the edifying assessment of eleven years of purges under the undivided power of President Xi Jinping: “Six members of the political bureau, 35 members of the central committee, 60 generals and probably several million local executives. » (Financial … Read more

Digital: “It is urgent to conceptualize and better understand the “psychological greenhouse effect” linked to the smartphone”

2023-12-01 06:00:16 Given the widely documented deleterious effects of mobile phones on the health of children, Louis Forgeard, child psychiatrist, Aurore Guyon, doctor in neuroscience, and Servane Mouton, neurologist, call, in a column in “Le Monde”, to reduce access to them. . 1701437165 #Digital #urgent #conceptualize #understand #psychological #greenhouse #effect #linked #smartphone

“The sector collective agreement appears very useful when corporate social dialogue does not exist”

2023-12-01 13:00:03 IMore than a century ago, the French industrial relations system was built around sectoral collective bargaining. But for more than forty years, numerous institutional reforms have aimed to promote collective bargaining at company level: the Auroux laws of 1982 first established the annual obligation to negotiate in companies with more than 50 employees. … Read more