The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is ever more pressing. Various forms of action are available to Governments to achieve this goal. The economic instrument is one of them and taxation is one of its modalities. With the collapse in the price of a barrel of oil, which is likely to become
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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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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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For the past three months, France seems to have been bewitched by the Yellow Vests movement. At first, the demonstrations, the occupation of roundabouts, the emergence of new figures, attracted the sympathy of a majority of our fellow citizens. But as time went by, the movement shrank like a skin of sorrow, leaving only a few of our fellow citizens with a sense of belonging.
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We weren't used to seeing pensioners demonstrating, making claims, yet they were there, wearing grey jackets to carry their message. What happened? Why this intrusion into an area of demands traditionally reserved for working people? A look back at the emergence of a new senior consciousness, silver culture, the avant-garde.
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The Yellow Vests crisis has brought to light a deep divide between town and country. The inhabitants of the cities would be opposed to the inhabitants of the fields by different, even antagonistic, lifestyles and socio-economic levels. But does this cleavage correspond to a reality? For Eric Charmes, sociologist
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Our French culture has in its DNA a propensity to let violence happen. Our relationship to authority is ambiguous; we are both very sensitive to it, frequently opposing it, in a chronic rebellious jouissance, while also seeking to exercise it. The figures of power fascinate us first of all,
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The President of the Republic today launched the Great National Debate on 15 January. It will last two months and proposes a form of response to the crisis the country is going through. Crisis known as the Yellow Vests crisis but which is broader than this movement. A crisis of politics, of
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The Yellow Vest crisis revealed the role of social networks as a driving force and catalyst for the movement. How to govern in the age of Facebook? While President Macron is trying, by solemnly speaking to the French, to find solutions to the Yellow Vest crisis, a deep gulf seems to have opened up.
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A Youtubeur at COP24: five videos to tell the story of the climate negotiations - Episode 3 The 24th climate conference (COP24) opened on Sunday 2 December with the hope that the States will be able to find an ambitious agreement capable of keeping warming below the
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The complex phenomenon of rebellion in France or how to get out of individual and collective blockages It is highly likely that the "Yellow Vests" are the spark that could ignite the powder keg, the expression of multiple social bills. The questions that arise are: why now? Why so many
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What do thinkers think of this singularly eruptive symptom of changing times? Faced with an unprecedented crisis that expresses all the facets of anger, rage and violence, whose new faces, spontaneously appeared in the media, move the French because they talk about their distress.
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Un enjeu majeur pour l’économie des métropoles mais aussi pour la forme de nos sociétés Dans une société polarisée par la mondialisation, où les inégalités économiques vont croissant, le logement est devenu pour les citadins une préoccupation centrale : alors que les logements abordables abondent dans certaines communes et cœurs
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En plein conflit social avec les « gilets jaunes » contre la hausse des taxes sur le carburant et le manque de pouvoir d’achat, Emmanuel Macron a présenté ce mardi matin 27 novembre devant les membres du Conseil national de la transition écologique (CNTE) un projet de mesures, sans changement
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While the demonstrations of the last few days have highlighted the dependence of French people on the car and their vulnerability to rising fuel prices, the Climate Action Network and its member associations recall the essential role of the draft law on the orientation of mobility, which will be unveiled
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