A wind of anti-capitalist and anti-globalization revolt is blowing over Polytechnique.
The elite of the elite.
At the end of January, after six months of mobilization by a handful of students and two appeals filed with the administrative court of Versailles, LVMH threw in the towel.
Its research center on sustainable luxury will not see the light of day on the school's campus.
In November, however, the board of directors of l'X had given its agreement for the acquisition, by the world number one in luxury, of a plot of 22,500 m² located in the north-east area of its campus.
Bis repeated.
In January 2022, TotalEnergies (ex-Total group) also gave up its installation project.
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In a France and a Europe in crisis, threatened by energy shortages and inflation, the oxymoronic challenges of
“sustainable luxury”
put forward by the group of Bernard Arnault appear quite derisory, even indecent, in the face of the immediate necessities of the vast majority of the population
”, wrote in September a collective…
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