The currents events which are hurting France, the huge fires in Gironde and the extreme temperatures observed in the Western part of the country, unavoidably are reviving the worries about the evolution of the climate due to the greenhouse gas emissions. But if the linking can be useful to mobilize economic agents and families and to make adopted the appropriate measures, that must not delude people. From all the time and in every country inhabitants have had to face natural catastrophes. In the Landes forests, not far from the current affected zones, it was during a long time talked about ...

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It is frequently said we must not be guided by fear. But is it a good manner to govern to frighten the people of your country? In a few days, we have just had two declarations of high public officials about the dangers for the public finances the increase of interest rates and  inflation represent on the charges generated by the country indebtedness. They included catastrophic numbers without any link with reality. The non-expressed objective was, of course, to make a pressure on the opinion in order to stop to be in favor of wages and social benefits increases to ...

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The French voters, when they went to vote, have given their votes with never before observed proportions to extremist political groups. During the presidential election, the candidate of the Rassemblement National, the new name of the former Front National, was qualified for the second round in reaching the second place, just above the far-left candidate. She then got more than 40% of the votes. During the election for the National Assembly, with a very high level of abstentions, the two extremist formations, the France Unbowed with 79 elected and the Rassemblement National with 89 elected, have got a never observed ...

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