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The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk makes the regulation of a key sector for the future of democracies in the face of authoritarian regimes even more crucial.
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Nicolas Baverez
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Le fate of political freedom in the XXIe century remains very uncertain. Authoritarian regimes, which had benefited from the crisis of democracies from the crash of 2008 and the retreat of the United States, are caught up by the perverse effects of absolute power. Russia combines military stagnation and a violent recession. China is accumulating deadlock of its zero Covid strategy, exhaustion of its economic model and hardening of its totalitarianism around the absolute power of Xi Jinping.
But, on the other hand, democracies are far from having filled their gap. The outcome of the confrontation will depend on their cohesion and above all on their ability to reinvent themselves to stem the populist danger, stabilize the middle class and ensure their governability. The safeguarding of the rule of law is one of them…
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name became synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the call of June 18, has established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during the time of his presidency, after his death he became a myth, an ideal of a politician that both on the right and on the left we find ourselves regretting.
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