France’s pension system is facing severe tests, influenced by population aging, low fertility rates, and challenges in immigration integration. These factors amplify the fiscal pressures of the pay-as-you-go model. From my observation, while North African immigrants provide labor supplementation, their lower productivity and generous family reunification policies may exacerbate future retirement expenditure burdens, thereby threatening … Continue reading France’s Pension Crisis and North African Immigration
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2026 | Events I Am Paying Attention To
January Bulgaria formally adopts the euro, with its GDP now exceeding that of Luxembourg. The symbolic meaning of eurozone expansion often outweighs the economic substance itself. Greg Abel becomes CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, with Warren Buffett remaining as chairman — for the first time, I genuinely feel that the Buffett era is entering its countdown. … Continue reading 2026 | Events I Am Paying Attention To
La spéculation stratégique de la France et l’impasse de l’autonomie européenne
Je dois l’avouer franchement : lorsque j’observe la France de 2025 afficher à nouveau, sur la scène internationale, cette posture qu’elle appelle « autonomie stratégique », je ne ressens pas seulement de la déception, mais une inquiétude de plus en plus forte, presque impossible à contenir. Je sens de plus en plus clairement que les … Continue reading La spéculation stratégique de la France et l’impasse de l’autonomie européenne
Why Has Europe Fallen Asleep on Digital Payments?
A Long Reflection on Civilizational Self-Anesthesia and Institutional Torpor I increasingly feel that Europe’s backwardness in digital payments is not the result of missing technology, insufficient resources, or a lack of talent. The real cause lies deeper, more abstractly, and in ways Europeans themselves hesitate to admit: it is the outcome of a civilization that … Continue reading Why Has Europe Fallen Asleep on Digital Payments?




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