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Energy · sovereignty · oil
Can France become oil-self-sufficient?
20 September 2026
Energy sovereignty
France must learn the lesson of Hormuz
September 13, 2026
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Intelligence · society · psychology · ethics
When watching one’s own fellow citizens conflicts with conscience
What research says about “moral injury”
Democracy · institutions · social movements
When the street is no longer enough
Popular anger, political deadlock and the temptation of rupture
Education · employment · skills · government
The Test of Reality
Degrees, skills and results
Economy & taxation
At every toll, you are not paying for a road. You are paying a rent.
Motorways, the 2006 privatisation and a rent organised by the State
Society
Social benefits and welfare dependency
An open letter to political leaders
Politics & democracy
At the origins of Europe
American influence on European construction from 1948 to 1960, and what it has become today.
Politics & democracy
“It’s Going to Blow”: The Myth of the Providential Man
Why waiting for a savior or military intervention too often replaces democratic organization, civic responsibility and non-violent action.
Taxation & institutions
Tax consent is no longer assured in France
When one of the developed world’s highest tax burdens meets collapsing trust in public spending and algorithmic tax enforcement
Cybersecurity · digital sovereignty
State cybersecurity: who must act, who must oversee, and who should be held accountable?
Who coordinates, responds, oversees and verifies the State’s cybersecurity after the DGFiP and DJI SkyPixel cases?
Economy & taxation
France sickened by its norms and its delays
Data centres in France: the mirage of 75 billion euros
Politics & democracy
The organized decline of France
Economic betrayal and the abandonment of sovereignty.
Housing & real estate
Failures of energy renovation
Complaint on the structural defects of the scheme
Politics & democracy
Democracy in peril
Diagnosis of a system at the end of its rope.
Law · urban planning · national cohesion
Civil disobedience or refusal of the common rule?
Law, lightweight housing and equality before common rules, through the Désobéissance Fertile case.
France · Public debt · 2027 election
France’s Debt: A Reminder of Responsibility
Debt is neither an absolute evil nor an invention of creditors. But after fifty years of deficits, budgetary responsibility cannot be erased by labels.
Politics & democracy
Sovereignty agencies: preserve, reform, modernize
Complementary dossier on the agencies to keep and reform.
Politics & democracy
Merging agencies
Simplification and coherence of public action.
Politics & democracy
Reintegrating agencies into ministries
Clarity and political responsibility.
Politics & democracy
Removing obsolete bodies
Rationalization and budgetary discipline.
Politics & democracy
Operational appendix: dismantling kit
Operational annexes for implementing reform.
Politics & democracy
Nine essential dossiers to understand and transform the State
A localized gateway to the priority public-policy dossiers.
Artificial intelligence & society
What if, tomorrow, humanity were considered a threat by a conscious AI?
Artificial consciousness, loss of control, Skynet, The Matrix, HAL 9000 and biological risk: what science fiction may have understood before us
Society · AI dependence · human resilience
What if AI went dark?
Human skills, resilience and dependence on artificial intelligence
Cybersecurity & sovereignty
What if Washington imposed France's electronic invoicing system on Tesla, SpaceX, Amazon and Anthropic?
Electronic invoicing, artificial intelligence, industrial espionage and economic warfare
Politics & democracy
Does the French State still need 105,000 tax agents in 2026?
5 agents around one sheet of paper. 18 to 36 months of procedure. 4 billion euros per year.
Cybersecurity & critical infrastructure
Water networks, factories, energy: is anyone at the controls?
When services know, agencies warn, allies alert, and political decision-making still struggles to turn information into verified correction.
Economy & taxation
Fibre versus Starlink: where France fails
The failure of French digital deployment
Economy & taxation
France against its entrepreneurs
Status report on my campsite project in the face of a mind-boggling administration
Economy & taxation
France produces the cheapest electricity in Europe. And yet the French pay more and more for it.
European market, ARENH, EDF and energy sovereignty
Politics & democracy
The democracy of appearances
When the smile replaces the program, when image replaces thought.
Economy & taxation
Fiscal France: a heavily taxed country with declining consent
Taxes, levies, tax expenditures and the crisis of consent.
Society
Self-defence: legal analysis and avenues for reform
When the law poorly protects those who defend themselves
Politics & democracy
The limits of democracy
From the bypassed 2005 referendum to urban riots, fiscal AI and institutional refoundation.
Cybersecurity · public accountability
NIS2 still stalled, DGFiP compromised: did the conflict over “backdoors” delay French cybersecurity?
A documented timeline of the French transposition delay, encryption dispute and DGFiP compromises.
Housing & real estate
The rental permit: and then what?
When the State turns an act of ownership into an obstacle course
Politics & democracy
Rupture Plan
A four-level summary: seven dossiers to rebuild France democratically.
Intelligence · institutions · civil liberties
Politics and the World of Intelligence: How It Works
What citizens may know, what the law permits, what secrecy protects — and where political risk begins.
Society
Why the French are leaving France
Beyond millionaires, a systemic crisis.
Housing & real estate
Proposals to revive the rental supply
Getting out of the housing crisis through private landlords
Politics & democracy
What is not running right in France?
Anatomy of a decline — Four converging dossiers
State, security & citizens
When the State Fails, the Citizen Steps In
What happens when public authority is too slow or ineffective and citizens begin performing tasks they expected the State to prepare, protect or adjudicate?
Politics & democracy
Referendum: a stone in the pond
Philippe de Villiers' initiative and the silence of the elites
Politics & democracy
State reform: cleaning up the agencies
Umbrella dossier on 1,153 national public bodies within the Senate’s documented perimeter; overlapping categories are not mechanically added.
Politics & democracy
Structural reform of the State: stakes and levers
The documented perimeter is 1,153 national public bodies identified within the perimeter examined by the Senate. Consultative bodies, agencies, operators and independent authoritie
Institutions & sovereignty
Governing Without Permanent Impunity
A constitutional and legislative proposal for holding executive leaders criminally and financially liable, under strict safeguards, for serious harm to the Nation’s fundamental int