Switzerland's global competitiveness is the highest in the World according to WEF. It can be seen as a paradoxon that this position could be achieved thank to its innate deficiencies: - Absence of natural resources, - Small size and weak strategic position of the country, - Lack of a clear national identity Read more

This initiative must be repelled because it does not solve anything, it supposes that everything continues to work as well as before when something is cut from a functional organism, and it supposes that treaties can be renegotiated according to the unilateral terms of the party asking for it. Read more

L'immigration est un de ces sujets qu'il est difficile de traiter avec un peu d'ordre car chacun a ses idées préconçues et ses priorités. Il faut rester différencié et analyser les aspects démographiques, économiques, sociaux et civilisationnels de la question. C'est pour me forger une opinion que j'ai écrit ce billet. Read more

While liberalism barely exists in France it is slowly eroding in Switzerland, although it has been and still is a formula of great succes when coupled with a strong social cohesion and the opening to the World. Read more

A modern constraint, especially in the media and political propaganda, is to align people's opinions and political parties in a linear and simplistic scale from right to left. It is too simple and it leads to confusion In a space of freedom and individual responsibility we must distinguish between Liberal and Collectivist, Global and Local, Central and Regional. Read more

Having been valid during the XIXth century the Monroe doctrine was followed by interventionism and some form of imperialism. The United States have saved Europe from chaos twice, and the peoples of the old continent need to be grateful to them. But this past role doesn’t give the foreknowledge of what is needed for the future. And their diplomatic errors accumulate. They should revert to Monroe. Read more

Hors des questions de fond théologiques ou idéologiques nous constatons de fortes similitudes de comportement d’un socialiste pur sucre à la française et d’un islamiste tendance frères ou salaf. On discute ici leur manière d’appréhender une idéologie, de la représenter dans l’espace public, et de jouer le jeu des institutions politiques d’un pays. Read more

If and when all proved fossil reserves will have been burned, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration may reach approx. 925 ppm. At this level the temperature impact is calculated by a simple two layer static model to be 0.9 to 1.2 °C above its level before the beginning of the industrial era. This is clearly no reason to terrorize the crowds with catastrophe scenarios. Read more