PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB March, 2017. Subscribe here ! Without Kissinger to negotiate the petrodollar and put the US currency back to the centre of the global game after the shock of Nixon’s announcement in 1971 to halt the convertibility of the dollar to gold, the greenback would never have been ...
Read More »Franck Biancheri Network and the ICAN network: one more attempt to enforce positive (and democratic) change in European governance
On Januray 8th in Berlin, Marie-Hélène Caillol our President, took part in a small meeting which resulted in the launching of a new initiative: ICAN, where CAN stands for Change Agent Network. “Most Citizens of Europe do not want the EU to carry on with “business as usual” as its ...
Read More »2016-2020 – Birth of global governance alongside the emergence of a new currency: new SDR paves the way to Globalisation and impacts the American dollar (Excerpt GEAB September 2016)
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 ...
Read More »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 ...
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