Focus on a Europe caught between Grexit and Brexit in this issue, even if the calendar of the future – renamed GlobalEurope Future Agenda – also reviews a world that is acting and reorganizing itself through a multitude of summits, meetings and under various acronyms. Between a Greece that is ...
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December GEAB – Europe over troubled waters
With the European elections just around the corner, the last pillar of the ‘twentieth century model’ of European construction has just fallen victim to a French people voicing their anger over the socially unbearable nature of compliance with European rules. France, aware of its inability to carry the old European ...
Read More »United Kingdom 2019: What if Brexit proved to be a success story?
PUBLIC Announcement of our monthly bulletin GEAB (March 2018). Register here ! So far, the media and political analysts have been unanimous: Brexit represents an uncertain and dangerous future only for the UK. Our readers know that we have always been more circumspect about this. Now that the first phase of negotiations has been ...
Read More »From the European Union to the European Space: From Brexit to Crisexit? (Abstract GEAB, June 2017)
On June 8, the British elected a new Parliament where a Common’s majority escaped from Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservative Party. … result of this election for Theresa May is that it allows it to justify a change of negotiation line, moving from a hard-Brexit project to a soft-Brexit, ...
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 »Brexit, Trump, populism: The “post-truth”, its accomplices and its antidote (José María Compagni Morales)
It could be said that we’re all accomplices of the so-called “post-truth”, although not to the same extent. But, what is the post-truth? The post-truth refers to circumstances in which emotions and personal beliefs are more determining when shaping public opinion than objective facts. The post-truth is used in the ...
Read More »The Lessons from Brexit (by Henri de Courtivron)
The recent episode of Brexit emphatically highlighted many weaknesses and shortcomings which demonstrate that neither economics nor politics is an exact science – starting with the economic commentators, who, in their vast majority, asserted that the Brexit will not happen, supported in this belief by polls, which also, overwhelmingly, presaged ...
Read More »American Election – Brexit – Euroland – TTIP – Turkey – Russian Sanctions: What future is there for the European Commission within the big redefinition of the Transatlantic Relationship?
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB September, 2016. Subscribe here ! Since its creation, the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin has been designed among other things to inform European public opinion and decision makers about the fact that the global geopolitical reconfiguration vitally requires a profound change of the EU. The ...
Read More »Open Letter to the European Leaders: Countering the British nationalist takeover with a European democratic blow
Countering the British nationalist takeover with a European democratic blow Towards a first real trans-European election – An open Letter to the European Leaders – July 20, 2016 Dear European leaders, “We have all got it right, Brexit will ultimately not result in Great Britain leaving the EU. Nevertheless, Brexit ...
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