” The Euro crisis, and more recently the Ukrainian crisis, made it clear that we are facing a severe political vacuum with regard to the European construction. ECB bankers and civil servants from the European Commission and the Member States handled the crisis. From a technical point of view, their ...

– Executive summary – On September 29th, LEAP organized the second Euro-BRICS online discussion on the “The Euro-Russia row as a result of an overlap between two economic unions”. The meeting gathered around 25 participants from the European and BRICS academic and civil fields mostly. This discussion took place in the larger ...

Position paper in advance of the next Euro-BRICS online meeting on Student Mobility in Europe and the BRICS, crossed visions:  Euro-BRICS online meeting, November 25th.  Europe’s advantage in terms of student mobility programmes is that of time and experience. But BRICS’ student mobility is anchored in XXIst century challenges. Crossed visions on this ...

Since 2006, the GEAB has analyzed the development and anticipated the next steps of what our teams have called, from the beginning, a “global systemic crisis”. No one can doubt the fact that we have really been in a “crisis” since 2008. That this “crisis” is “global” is also commonly ...

The crisis of the euro currency has helped deploy the institutional embryo of the Eurozone: from the ECB to the Euro Summit via the Eurogroup, the EU and the Member-States have realized since 2009 that they had omitted to endow the Euroland, this new sovereign who appeared in 2002 in ...

Les derniers chiffres économiques allemands ont tordu le cou au mythe d’une économie allemande qui, soutenue par une politique d’austérité et grâce aux réformes structurelles sous le gouvernement Schröder, allait réaliser une croissance pérenne et montrer le chemin à suivre aux économies fragiles de la zone euro, comme notamment l’Italie, ...

BRICS-EU-CIS Cooperation: problems and challenges DR., Professor I.Z.Yarygina – Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Irina Executive Summary of Professor Irina Yarygina after her intervention during the Euro-BRICS Online Discussion – ‘The Euro-Russia row as a result of an overlap between two economic unions – lessons for ...

Two important facts emerge from the past four weeks’ news. First, China is becoming the world’s largest economic power, officially overtaking the US, based on GDP measured in purchasing power terms (IMF figures) of $17.61 trillion (compared to $17.4 trillion for the US). If the official media hasn’t raised the ...

This title is inspired by Franck Biancheri first book (unpublished) written in 1992 and in which the author showed that the founding principles of the European project conceived at the end of the Second World War (a community of countries giving themselves the means to jointly build a lasting peace ...

The Euro-BRICS project firmly believes that the emergence of a multipolar world is a heavy trend that should be welcome and accompanied rather than feared and contained. Indeed LEAP bases its work on an original prospective method – political anticipation[1] – which, among other features, intends to help detect unavoidable trends, identify future-bearer paths amidst ...