how to react to crises? The eco debates of April 2, 2022

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Around Emmanuel Cugny, Anne-Sophie Alsifprofessor of economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Patrice Geoffronmember of the Circle of Economists and Director of the Center for Geopolitics of Energy and Raw Materials.

Energy, inflation, public aid: have we entered a war economy?

Expected impact of the war in Europe on economic growth, galloping return of inflation, new public aid deployed within the framework of the “resilience” plan at the cost of an incessant widening of debt and deficits… the first figures and first prospective data fall and are hardly reassuring. Can we say that we have entered a war economy? What characterizes it? Facing what challenges does France face today? Can the situation hold?

Decarbonization: how to react to the current crises?

In this context of energy, economic and financial tensions, will we be able to carry out the desired energy transition, in other words the decarbonization of our economy as we are aiming for? This transition will require a lot of industrial, technical and political efforts and recent geostrategic developments increase the difficulties and the costs. How to achieve goals?

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