Un corpuscule sans vie a mis à genoux une civilisation qui s’attribue – quand elle ne se vante pas – de réalisations scientifiques et technologiques exceptionnelles. La persévérance a atterri sur Mars. À la même époque, le confinement semblait être le seul moyen de contenir la pandémie de la Covid-19. ...
Lire la suite...Discussion: The crisis of Western parliamentary democracy (New European Perspectives)
New European Perspectives N.10 The crisis of Western parliamentary democracy 24 Mars 2021 at 19h30 on MRTV: https://youtu.be/ngLIpItU0LU As the West keeps throwing at the face of the rest of the world its so-called “democratic values” to justify sanctions and aggressive postures of all sorts, we, Western citizens, know how ...
Lire la suite...VIDEO – A Western civilisational crisis – Fighting back obscurantism: where to begin?
In the face of a collapse of rationality at the heart of Western civilisation and in the general context of change of paradigm – both dramatically accelerated by the pandemic, we are all lost in transition. Rethinking the aims, principles, contents, methods, tools and vehicles of education, appear as an existential ...
Lire la suite...VIDEO – 2021-2030: Who / what should Europeans be afraid of?
After over a decade of multidirectional stress tests imposed on Europeans by a mutating world, have we seen it all? What next should we be afraid of in the coming decade? What threats to European citizen see weighing over their future? Are they / do they feel protected by the ...
Lire la suite...VIDEO – Is European defence dead already?
Is the EU about to give up any project of strategic independence in favour of a NATO-centred defence system ? If so what would be the consequences on countries most attached to an independent continental defence such as France ? What would be the consequences on Europe’s foreign relations ? ...
Lire la suite...New European Perspectives : Will Covid unblock a European Health policy? (hosted by MRTV)
The European response to this second wave of Covid pandemia seems incoherent. No lessons learnt? Inertial incapacity to change a health system (developed after WWII) that should be adapted to new economic, environmental and societal stakes in a globalized world? Maybe a Marshall Plan for health, as we proposed for ...
Lire la suite...Débat LEAP/MR – La Génération Europe est-elle toujours européenne ? (video)
LEAP travaille depuis longtemps sur la notion de Génération Europe, à savoir cette génération apparue sur les bancs universitaires dans les années 80, alors que les élites dirigeantes européennes envisageaient comme prochaine étape de construction européenne l’Europe politique. Malheureusement, la chute du Mur et l’appropriation de l’effondrement du bloc soviétique ...
Lire la suite...Lettre ouverte pour un Plan “Marshall” européen de l’éducation et de la formation pour éviter l’effondrement socio-économique
Un nouveau paradigme est né auquel les citoyens doivent être éduqués. Un programme éducatif d’adaptation sociétale est requis, il doit être mis en oeuvre vite et viser large. La référence au “Plan Marshall” suggère le caractère d’urgence et l’ampleur que ce programme doit prendre pour assurer à notre continent un ...
Lire la suite...The Age of knowledge : Unexpected opportunities, by Prof. Mihai Nadin (excerpt)
The great thinker of anticipatory systems, Prof. Mihai Nadin, honours LEAP with the publication of an excerpt of the book he wrote in 1997, entitled “The Civilization of Illiteracy“, the vision of which is revealed by the striking relevence of the analysis more than 20 years later. In these times ...
Lire la suite...Online debate : The post-Covid educational challenge
In partnership with LEAP, Movimento Roosevelt’s second New European Perspectives online debate took place on April 30th on the topic of “Post-Covid educational challenges”. The Covid crisis is accelerating the switch to a brand (brave) new world. A huge effort to bring global and European populations to the proper understanding ...
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