The world has been seeking a substitute for its reliance on the dollar since 2008. The dependency has been so strong, that it has taken almost a decade for a solution to be drafted. Strangely, this solution came from an institution perceived by some as obsolete, until China took the ...
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Global statistical dislocation: the multiplication of tools for measuring economic reality
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB February, 2017. Subscribe here ! Within the global systemic crisis that we are now experiencing, our experts have been talking for some years about “statistical fog” to qualify the inability of today’s tools to measure real economy, or even the way to manipulate them in order to ...
Read More »Politico-Administrative Regime and Development Institutes in South Africa, by Liudmila Vedmetskaya
As an important player on the African continent and its representative in the BRICS South Africa plays a significant role on the international arena. From another side, colonial and apartheid past created a huge number of obstacles on the way of modernization of politico-administrative regime and creation of national competitive ...
Read More »How Nigel plans to Trump the EU out of existence whilst Boris and Vladimir give a helping hand , by Adrian Taylor
Many Europeans have never understood Nigel Farage. His objective was never just Brexit. His real ambition is the collapse of the European Union. Enter (soon to be) President Trump. He celebrated Brexit as “a great thing”. He has also repeatedly said he will “Appoint tough and smart trade negotiators to fight on behalf ...
Read More »Anticipating the Political Consequences of the Internet, by Mihai Nadin
This is an article from MAP (Magaine d’anticipation politique) written by Mihai Nadin in March 2012 – MAP is a four-monthly publication by LEAP. People took to the streets. Some heavy players in the digital economy flexed their muscle. The press covered the event. Even the United Nations directed its ...
Read More »Money, Finance, Europe, Democracy, Geopolitical Configuration: the GEAB bulletin’s 35 trends
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB January, 2017. Subscribe here ! Every year, LEAP/E2020 is offering you a short overview of the up and down[1] trends of the year which is starting. In addition to the intellectual interest of this contribution of LEAP/E2020, which of course reflects many of our researchers’ analyses over the ...
Read More »End of the US government control of ICANN: Towards the privatisation of internet control agencies (Excerpt GEAB October 2016)
Both in the United States and around the world, this news has been making some noise: since October the 1st, the internet is finally “free from US tutelage.” Is it, indeed? It is true that a decisive step has just been reached, since the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
Read More »Marie-Hélène Caillol: “They destroyed the EU” (interview by la Vanguardia, 30/12/2016)
LEAP is proud to share with you the interview of Marie-Hélène Caillol (President of LEAP and AAFB), conducted by Rafael Poch, correspondent in Paris for the Spanish newspaper LA VANGUARDIA. This article is also available in Spanish here! Is this multicrisis EU fixable, or does it have to be demolished in order to be ...
Read More »The military or Erdogan, again (Excerpt GEAB October 2015)
This article was published by our team in October 2015, in a very specific context: the Russian crisis was not solved yet, Syrian trap, Erdogan having political difficulties etc. We can verify today the precision of this anticipation, and more precisely of the possibility of a “coup d’etat”. The other ...
Read More »Open letter to the G20
The following is an open letter from Franck Biancheri, Director of studies of LEAP to the G20. Ladies and Gentlemen, Your next summit takes place in a few days in London; but are you aware that you have less than a semester to prevent the world from plunging into a ...
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