“Never has the publication of any law or decree since 1979 worried professionals like us as much”

2023-12-19 18:00:00 MMadam Prime Minister, The National Association of Centers for Termination of Pregnancy and Contraception, (Ancic), an association of abortion professionals created in 1979, has been working since the final vote of the Veil law to defend the rights of women to have control over their body and those of abortion professionals in their … Read more

“The absence of dialogue with taxi artisans and support measures reflects technocratic and centralized management”

2023-12-17 09:00:04 Uhe provision of the 2024 social finance law aims to reduce the cost of healthcare transport by taxi, by lowering the price when shared patient transport is possible, via a specific reservation platform. On December 11, a national taxi strike protesting against this provision caused significant disruption to the lives of our citizens … Read more

“Despite the triumphalism displayed over the meager results obtained, reindustrializing France will not be easy”

2023-12-16 04:00:04 Lhe French government has set itself the objective of reindustrializing France, starting from a situation where the manufacturing industry no longer represents 10% of added value and 9% of total employment in France. The law of October 24 on green industry advocates the creation of an industry for the energy transition (electric batteries, … Read more

“The debt must invite us to go beyond our traditional debates between left and right”

2023-12-13 19:00:27 After the parenthesis of “whatever it takes”, the debt once again becomes a subject of concern. While the overall debt, public and private, represented $226 trillion (around 209,500 billion euros) at the end of 2020, it now corresponds to more than 310,000 billion, or more than 350% of gross domestic product (GDP), an … Read more

“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

“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

“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