The latest data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market reveals its devastating effects on workers in the informal economy and hundreds of millions of enterprises around the world. As job losses intensify, almost half of the workers in the informal economy are unemployed.
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In England, Italy and also in France, an unusual influx of children admitted to intensive care units for severe inflammation of the heart tissue and coronary arteries led paediatricians to issue an alert. Doctors are surprised by this abnormal influx of young patients, some of whom are being tested.
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For the physicist-philosopher Etienne Klein, confinement upsets our conception of space-time. It is true that the time of physics does not change: one minute always lasts sixty seconds, but it is our perception of time that changes in this confined space where everything becomes softer, without rhythm, a time
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Only one species is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic: ours. As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity, in particular our global financial and economic systems, which are based on a limited paradigm that values economic growth over the long term.
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In order to anticipate and prevent the massive use of private cars at a time of deconfinement, the Climate Action Network is asking the Government to release an emergency fund for bicycles of 500 million euros, which is essential to support communities and ensure the deployment of temporary bicycle paths throughout the country.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it: the COVID-19 epidemic is an international public health emergency. A global pandemic evolving into a global economic crisis, which unfortunately disproportionately affects the most vulnerable populations around the world. And among the most affected, the most
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On Tuesday, the Prime Minister will present the framework for the government's plan to break out of containment. It would be neither understandable nor acceptable that the field expertise gained from the Covid-19 test should not be considered an indispensable resource in the argumentation of post-containment policy decisions. No tangible signs, beyond
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May 11, 2020 is the date set by the government for the gradual reopening of schools. In a note of 20 April (1), the Scientific Council recommends to the government the reopening of schools and establishments in September, indicating in another specific opinion that the decision to
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Faced with Emmanuel Macron's statements on the continuation of confinement as of Monday 11 May for "elderly people, severely handicapped people" and "chronically ill people", the polemic highlights a kind of anti-elderly social segregation that is particularly unacceptable. A salutary step backwards
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The measures taken to combat the Covid-19 pandemic are disrupting our daily lives. Many see this as an opportunity to initiate more sustainable behaviours, and even hope that this experience of imposed sobriety will be transformed into a real awareness in favour of more environmentally virtuous lifestyles. This
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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According to its own definition, the online platform MyOwnDocumenta is "a virtual object not identified by the artists themselves", who pose, during their infinite residencies, the traces of their ongoing projects. A collective logbook where each artist or author regularly posts, at his own pace, some of their works.
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When the coronavirus epidemic began - it was only a few weeks ago and now seems centuries ago - doctors felt relatively confident, believing they knew who they were dealing with. Early medical reports suggested that the coronavirus appeared to be a standard respiratory virus, although it was not a common respiratory virus.
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"Only a crisis, real or perceived, produces real change," said the famous American economist Milton Friedman four decades ago. "When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are circulated."
Crises shape history. This is why some people think that the global pandemic is
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Anticipating the consequences of the coming crisis, the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam), the research department and the laboratories have set up a business continuity plan. Today, all of the teacher-researchers are actively pursuing their work, notably by developing specific research projects by
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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Scientists, environmentalists, young people concerned about their future, all observers of climate change have been shouting it for years. Political inaction and pusillanimity in the fight against climate change are leading us straight to an unliveable world. What we knew less about, and which
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Régis Marcon, a starred chef (1), signed an op-ed published in Le Figaro on Monday 20 April to call for "a partial deconfinement of responsible catering". Surrounded by 17 of the most renowned chefs in French catering (2), he calls for saving "more than a million jobs". A platform at the
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Most true inclusive, humanistic and progressive innovations are born in times of acute crisis, under the pressure of urgency and need, which accelerates everything and makes it possible to put technology at the service of know-how and real needs. The Innovation Tuesdays offer two reformatted videos and
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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