Lucille Caliman

3 weeks ago | polytechnique-insights.com | Lucille Caliman |Farah Doumit |Patrick Artus |Pilar Acosta

The inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States has caused various types of disruption. First of all, a protectionist policy with sharp increases in customs duties, the scale and scope of which are still uncertain and fluctuating. For the moment, this involves customs duties of 25% on steel and aluminium imports, and additional customs duties of 10% on US imports from China, but Trump has announced the introduction of much more global customs duties.

Jan 8, 2025 | polytechnique-insights.com | Lucille Caliman |Philippe Silberzahn |Patricia Crifo |Guillaume Bronsard

As the leading cause of a deregulation in the brain’s reward circuit, addictions are still widespread among the French population. This is largely due to the widespread use of legal psychoactive substances: tobacco and alcohol, which are the two leading causes of premature death in France. In 2020, nearly 25.5% of adults smoked every day (12 million people) and 10% drank at least one glass of alcohol a day (5 million people).