For nearly 16 years, LEAP (Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique), via its monthly publication GEAB (Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin), has been consciously practising anticipation and drawing lessons from it, resulting in a formalisation that has been steadily progressing since 2009. Today, we are proud to present a series of six 10-minutes ...

In this new edition of Digging into the Future, Swinkels & Caillol discuss the big topics of the June GEAB : the emerging Global British game-changer positioned on Europe, Transatlantic and Commonwealth; the mother of all change, demography ; the risks weighing on weaker economies in the aftermath of the ...

La présidente de LEAP, Marie-Hélène Caillol, participera à la table ronde “Inventons le monde d’après” qui se tiendra jeudi 1er juillet dans le cadre de la 24ème édition du Forum 5i (Innovation, Industrie, Inclusion, Investissement, International) organisé par la Métropole de Grenoble (FR). Elle y présentera l’analyse développée dans le ...

A very lively conversation between Swinkels and Caillol on the last GEAB ! They brush off various topics drawn from the May edition on “Commodities, will there be enough for everyone?” in a world where the money has been significantly redirected towards Western countries by means of those massive stimulus ...

The April edition of the GEAB focused on China, highlighting the irresistibility of the huge player it has become over the past 20 years. As the world gets entangled into the US-China power rivalry, Europe should be careful to put itself in a position of being able to make the ...

Europe today is all about resilience, green and digital transition, and strategic autonomy. It is certainly nice to hear that the EU has a vision for our common continent. However, the ideological revolution required to reach these goals is bumping on various principles of reality questioning their feasibility… at least ...

The EU should beware of disillusions!!! Such was our warning in the March edition of the GEAB; such is the topic discussed in this fourth edition of this Swinkels & Caillol’s discussion on the future. What are those principles of reality likely to affect the triumphant march towards a bright ...

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 ...

This month’s Digging into the Future envisions the risks of systemic heat up as the economy will reboot. We therefore wonder if the old Western-centered system will survive an ill-prepared restart of activity. Inflation and hyperinflation risks, rising commodity prices, soaring debt and ballooning budgets, related social and geopolitical tensions… ...

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 ...