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2022 presidential election: we need climate in the debate

2022 presidential election: we need climate in the debate

01 March 2022

In her column "In all subjectivity", Cécile Duflot, former minister and current Director General of Oxfam France, returns to the study "Navigating in troubled waters" to understand the state of mind and the collective psychology of France, a few weeks before the presidential election. One question brings them together: concern about climate change (82%) and expectations in this regard, particularly from the government. 

Chronicle to listen to again here.

Managing a Polarized Workforce

Managing a Polarized Workforce

01 March 2022

Harvard Business Review

"In a recent survey by More in Common, a group dedicated to strengthening societies against social division, fewer than 20% of Democrats agreed that most police officers are bad people, but Republicans thought that more than half of them would agree. False polarization makes people expect that discussing a contentious topic with someone holding a different view will be highly unpleasant and largely pointless."

Managing a Polarized Workforce

From yellow vests to the Freedom Convoy, the same fuels

From yellow vests to the Freedom Convoy, the same fuels

15 February 2022

In an Op-Ed article, Laurence de Nervaux analyses the protest movement called "Convoi de la liberté"' inspired by the Canadian demonstrations: "Traveling across the country to Paris and then Brussels, "le Convoi de la liberté" is an expression of the deep lines of division that run through French society. Reducing it to an anti-vax revolt would only feed an already alarming stigma". 

Le Pen-Zemmour electorate, immigration, ecology: the study that sheds light on French divisions

Le Pen-Zemmour electorate, immigration, ecology: the study that sheds light on French divisions

08 February 2022

"Three strong markers appear today in French society: uncertainty, a feeling of powerlessness and mistrust. They are not shared in the same way by the different families of French people and thus create gaps that are detrimental to cohesion". 

Law and Justice promised a Poland of solidarity, but caused Poles to stop trusting each other 

Law and Justice promised a Poland of solidarity, but caused Poles to stop trusting each other 

21 January 2022

Gazeta Wyborcza 

"The pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of the state model built by the Law and Justice party. A credible vision of a community of solidarity and a truly welfare state could respond to these needs and at the same time contribute to building bridges between the feuding sides of Polish society".

PiS obiecywał Polskę solidarną, a sprawił, że Polacy przestali sobie ufać