He is paying TotalEnergies a billion dollars to do natural gas investments it is already doing.
France
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump Pays a French Company a Billion Dollars to Increase Your Electric Bill
TotalEnergies was going to build wind farms. Now it’s being paid to not build them.
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Taxing the Rich and the Survival of Emmanuel Macron
Macron, whose own popularity ratings have been languishing, has made it clear that he opposes a wealth tax.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Clamoring to Tax the Rich
In Berkeley, New York, Paris, and Vatican City, it’s become central to political battles—and religious concerns.
Posted inPodcasts
The Early 90s Were Decadent and Depraved
John Ganz discusses his new book on how the period anticipated Trump.
Posted inTAP
Did Macron’s Gamble Pay Off?
Today on TAP: Calling a snap election did humiliate the far right. It remains to be seen whether the result produces a governable France.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The French Disconnection
France’s voters have a bare chance of keeping the far right from power, if the center and left can manage to cooperate.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Democrats and the Euroleft
How do the Dems stack up compared to U.K. Labour, the German Social Democrats, and the multiparty French left?
Posted inTAP
The French Left Arises From the Dead
Today on TAP: A surprising result of President Macron’s impulsive decision to call a snap election
Posted inTAP
France: Back to Dreyfus? Vichy? No Exit From Its Fraught History?
Today on TAP: Following the EU elections, the neofascist right squares off against the neo–Popular Front left.