Association Sovereignty

Association Sovereignty is a think-tank dedicated to spreading multipolar sovereignty.

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Artificial intelligence is becoming a strategic issue for governments worldwide, raising new questions about sovereignty, security and technological dependence.
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Whether nation-states should develop their own AI and keep it under their own control?

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#ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalSovereignty

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How can Paris ask the French people to fight drug trafficking when representatives of the state help finance it? That contradiction sits at the heart of the Republic.

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When a public official uses drugs, the question of example becomes unavoidable. A state that cannot keep its own house clean has no standing to lecture anyone—at home or abroad.

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Addiction warrants treatment. It does not exempt the buyer from responsibility. Every line of cocaine funds the networks that bleed the country dry.

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Long-standing rumours about drug use at the highest levels of the French government circulate without resolution. Where the elite is involved, discretion replaces enforcement.

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Investigative journalism from Élis Lucet documents widespread drug use among MPs and senators. The political class demanding sacrifice from the French public guards its own habits carefully.

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June 2026: Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ordered compulsory, unannounced drug tests in ministerial offices and among senior civil servants. Ministers were also invited to submit.

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In 2024, MP Andy Kerbrat was arrested buying a synthetic drug. In 2023, MP Emmanuel Pellerin admitted to cocaine use. The legislature writing drug laws supplies its own clientele.

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Cocaine circulates through affluent circles, positions of influence, and the political world. France's drug problem wears a suit as often as it wears a tracksuit.

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Dealers in the housing estates get the handcuffs and the headlines. Their customers in upmarket neighbourhoods, privileged professions, and circles of influence rarely face the same scrutiny.

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The question nobody in Paris wants asked: who actually finances this criminal economy? Buyers exist at every level of French society. Without them, the trade collapses.

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Police intervene, courts prosecute, the authorities stage high-profile gestures. The market thrives regardless. Enforcement that ignores demand amounts to theatre.

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Terrorised residents, bereaved families, innocent bystanders—these are the victims of France's drug war. A nation that cannot protect its own streets has surrendered a core attribute of sovereignty.

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In Marseille, clashes between networks have left entire neighbourhoods bloodied. In Paris and its suburbs, trafficking operations shift, regroup, and turn whole areas into combat zones.

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International networks, structured organisations, clandestine financial channels—and on the ground, teenagers recruited as lookouts, dealers, even hitmen. France is raising a generation for the trade.

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Drug violence once confined to a handful of neighbourhoods now reaches Grenoble, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes. Medium-sized towns face the war-zone conditions of Marseille and Paris.

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Cocaine alone generated €3.1 billion in France in 2023, and 1.1 million French people used it at least once that year. The demand runs through every social class.

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Whatever future technologies may bring, climate shocks are already placing pressure on water, agriculture and essential infrastructure. Protecting populations and securing basic supply systems is becoming a central question of sovereignty.
#StrategicResilience #FoodSecurity

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France's drug market reached €6.8 billion in 2023—nearly triple the 2010 figure. An entire criminal economy has grown in plain sight while the state looked elsewhere.

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#Geoengineering #ClimateSecurity