Pierre Briançon
@pierrebri
Columnist, Reuters Breakingviews, Berlin.
Times of London wins the day’s prize for automatic correction (I guess…)
Security "guarantees" for Ukraine (read in FT): If the Russians attack, let's give them a three-day headstart.
Eat pears…. Advertising campaign in the Berlin tube, with the killer argument: “ and they don’t come from a start-up!”
France's richest (the top 0.1%) have seen their income jump 120% since 2003. France's poorest (the bottom 25%) by 24% - Le Monde with French national statistics institute INSEE. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
How To Spend It going full trotskyite here. Without a bit of irony. We live in wonderful times.
I had the chance to spend three weeks with him in the same car, following the Tour de France for Libération, back in 1986. This pic, among others.
R.I.P. Photographer and artist extraordinaire Sebastião Salgado, whose pictures of the world's poor and downtrodden - and of his beloved Amazon forest - moved us so much.
A "wind of optimism" is now blowing in the U.S. (LVMH oligarch Bernard Arnault on the day he attended Donald Trump's inauguration, 20/01/2025)
Wise advise here by Olivier Blanchard (who should really come here instead of still posting over there) x.com/ojblanchard1...
Volodymyr Zelenskiy caught yet again not wearing a suit in the Oval Office #NoRespect
“Do you consider Donald Trump as a friend or an enemy of Europe?” - opinion poll in Grand Continent.
Man with this tie, and these socks & shoes, took Zelenskyi to task for not wearing a suit in the White House? Seriously? #OnlyInAmerica
This bit in @pkrugman.bsky.social today open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
News a la Murdoch: Total ripoff by Times of London of yesterday’s great Financial Times investigation on the sorry state of German trains. (FT mentioned though. At the end of 9th graf.)
Liberation's front page in 2012 when Arnault planned to ask for a Belgian passport in what looked like an attempt at tax exile.
Libération on French PM Bayrou’s inaugural speech to Parliament, which he delivered today with as much energy as a fat-free yogurt.