The crisis anticipated for the end of March 2006 will provide a serious test for Euroland and will determine whether the Euro is sustainable or not. The significant fall of the Dollar will automatically induce a strong upward pressure on the Euro against this currency, and against others linked to ...
Read More »Global systemic crisis – Escalation in the US reaction for survival: trigger a cold war to make it easier to annex Europe
When, in November 2013, Russia asked the EU for tripartite negotiations on the Ukraine’s free trade agreements with its two neighbours in order to find areas of common ground for all parties directly concerned (1), what was at stake was stability, integrity and independence for the Ukraine and that it ...
Read More »2014, year of change for FEFAP
FEFAP or Foundation for Education and Training in Political Anticipation aims to develop skills in Political Anticipation worldwide through online courses. This year FEFAP has made its training programme more flexible, from now one you can take 1,5 or 10 sessions. In addition, FEFAP recognises the highly interactive character of its training ...
Read More »The experience of the ECSC, the status of the concept of pooling resources in Europe today, and lessons for Europe and the World of Tomorrow
Marianne Ranke Cormier, May 23rd 2013, Moscow, 4th Euro-BRICS seminar General Secretary, Promete (Association de Promotion des Medias Trans-Européens), Paris, France Europe was born out of energy more than 60 years ago. Today there is no such thing as “one” European policy on energy and resources, although different instruments, mechanisms ...
Read More »“Une Journée en 2053”, une publication électronique gratuite des Editions Anticipolis en partenariat avec GS1 France
“Une Journée en 2053” est la compilation des interventions d’un colloque organisé par GS1 à l’occasion des 40 ans du code à barres en août 2013, colloque dont la caractéristique fut de réunir avec bonheur un panel de professionnels d’horizons suffisamment divers pour qu’il en ressorte une véritable « vision ...
Read More »2014, resumption of the of the global systemic crisis’ « normal » path (GEAB N°82)
The avalanche of liquidity from the Fed’s quantitative easing in 2013, allowed the world before’s tenets to wake up: indebtedness, bubbles, globalization, financialization… But all it took was a slight slowing down in the astronomical amounts injected by the US central bank every month for the rampant crisis, buried under ...
Read More »En route vers un nouveau cadre opérationnel et « souverain » pour l’Europe : Euroland, par Marie-Hélène Caillol
Pendant une vingtaine d’années, la construction et la gestion de l’Europe s’est faite dans le cadre de l’Union européenne (UE) qui a remplacé en 1992 le précédent appelé Communauté européenne. L’UE : des avancées, des limites et un grand échec Dans le cadre de l’UE née du Traité de Maastricht, la ...
Read More »The establishment of the banking union: a big step forward for Euroland, by Harald Greib
For the time being Euroland is first and foremost a zone managing a common currency. But this management is based on weak foundations. Many economists consider that a single currency can only be sustainable if it rests upon a political union, the kind of union which national politicians failed to ...
Read More »Proliferation of Free Trade Agreements and Currency Conflicts, by K.N.Harilal
Global governance is taking over hitherto unreached spaces of policy making including internal policies of nation-states and even those of local governments. It is undertaken with the overriding objective of facilitating global accumulation of capital. Globalisation of governance, however, cannot be a smooth process because of its obvious contradiction with ...
Read More »World political chaos, statistical « smog », risk that the financial planet explodes… But solutions for the future continue to emerge (GEAB N°81)
Historians, who usually consider that the 19th century runs from 1815 (Waterloo) to 1914 (the First World War) would certainly define the 20th century by the period 1914-2014, ending with the year in which the old system dies whilst a new one emerges. In this New Year 2014 welcome, then, ...
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