The closure of Fessenheim, transposition of the CJEU ruling on plant biotechnology by the French Council of State, locust invasion in Africa… the news on scientific and technical policy is
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The 2020s: could they usher in the age of a pro-science Europe, free from fears and chemophobia?
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In a season of resolutions, a site like ours has one hope: that the 2020s will be the decade of renewal for European scientific culture. To achieve this, there is
While Europeans were indulging in New Year celebrations, debate was growing within the new European Commission. France is once again seeking to impose its Nutri-Score system on other member states.
Shale gas, GMOs, here are some topics that usually arouse the worst fears in public opinion. With a certain efficiency, the European continent has managed to ban its production …
The Emmanuelle Ducros affair (1) currently making waves in the French-speaking Twittersphere illustrates two new developments in the controversy that is raging in the pro-science community against the zealots of
Judging by the many battles over the past few months on the web (especially on Twitter) environmentalism (in the sense of a political ideology) is staking its claim a little
Libra, Social Credit, Doconomy… Are science and technology re-inventing currency?
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While rumours persist about an unprecedented economic crisis, not a day that goes by that we do not hear about a new means of payment or new currencies. While we
We would like to take the opportunity of #Worldenvironmentday to come back to a problem we have been thinking about for a few years now. In a recent column, Laurent
In The Wizard and the Prophet[1], Charles C. Mann outlines the implicit controversy between two visionaries who founded two diametrically opposed schools of thought: William Vogt and Norman Borlaug[2]. They
In this week of European elections, it is more topical than ever to look at the resources allocated by the European Union to major projects and to compare them with