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Laboratoire Européen d´Anticipation Politique

Laboratoire Européen
d´Anticipation Politique

Connecting Europe to its citizens, the world and the future

Last September 16th, in the 17th issue of the GEAB, LEAP/E2020 predicted a difficult end of the year for France’s brand new president More contextually but not less significantly, the new French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s arrival into the European game is becoming a source of enduring tensions in the EU. ...

{{European real estate in 2008: Spain and UK deep into the crisis / Eastern Europe near housing bubble burst}} Before describing the situation in new EU member-states, let’s examine the evolution of two Western European markets which LEAP/E2020 predicted were about to decline, i.e. Spain and UK… (page 2) (Learn ...

{{International banks get dragged into financial crisis’ « black hole »: Four triggering factors of a major financial bankruptcy}} LEAP/E2020 now estimates that at least one large US financial institution (bank, insurance, investment fund) will file for bankruptcy before February 2008, sparking off bankruptcies among a series of other financial ...

{{Seven sequences of the impact phase of the global systemic crisis (2007-2009)}} The magnitude of the first banking financial shock felt last August indicated to our team of researchers that the impact will develop under the form of seven sequences or seven major shocks affecting sometimes specifically the world’s main ...

Money plays a big role in our life. In society too, nearly everything is determined by money. It is strange, that only few people know the juggling tricks, by which money originates and disappears again. Most people see, that money becomes worth less all the time, but they don’t know, ...

Recital 1 of the European Framework Directive establishes as a principle: “Water is not a commodity like any other, but a heritage that must be protected and treated as such”. Although the Directive was implemented in 2000, the European Union did not wait until the end of the 20th century ...

{{At the heart of the crisis: « The trading of the US debt »}} The main cause to the current systemic crisis is in the United States. This “end of the Western world as we’ve known it since 1945 ” anticipated by LEAP/E2020 in February 2006, is the collapse in ...

In June 2004, during the run-up to the Ukrainian presidential election that would result in the Orange Revolution, eight major Polish political parties were questioned by the prominent daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza as to their various Ukraine policies [[Kuzio, T. (2004). ‘Poland Lobbies EU Membership for Ukraine’, Eurasia Daily Monitor, ...

The confusion between the nature of the service and the persons in charge of the above-mentioned service leads the European Commission not to define the notion of public service. In this sense, the terms: Service of General Interest (SGI) and Service of General Economic Interest (SGEI) are preferred. According to ...

We Europeans have been, in the XXth century, from East to West of our continent, the actors of dreadful historical tragedies perpetrated in the name of modernity while in fact they were the contemporary expression of the most ancestral archaism. Repression, brutality, manipulation, extermination, conflict, division, terror, arbitrary,… dressed up ...