October 30th, already five years… and an absence always so cruel for his family, his friends, but also for Europe distraught in the storm. Let us remember the optimism of his will. In his memory, his friends and fellow companions pay tribute by sharing words, pictures, …, right here on this ...
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#CITIZENSROUTE – 1st E-Café debate: Looking at the Catalan crisis from a European angle – Online 6 Nov. 2017
The #CitizensRoute (A Franck Biancheri Network initiative) initiates its first e-Café debate! You are cordially invited to join us for an online public debate on Monday, November 6th at 18.00. The objective is to mobilise the organisational and political network of partners on burning issues, to create a dynamic debate around the #CitizensRoute ...
Read More »Comments on a proposed “Treaty for the Democratisation of the Eurozone” by Thomas Piketty and Friends (Christel Hahn)
Piketty’s “Pour un traité de démocratisation de l’Europe”, which is available in french since March, has just been released in german as „Für ein anderes Europa“ (for a different Europe). The subtitle of the german book clarifies, that the book presents a „Treaty for the Democratisation of the Eurozone“1, a very specific project, which ...
Read More »Global Systemic Crisis 2017-2021 – A phase of chaotic recomposition of the World: national re-landing, crash or rebound?
PUBLIC REVIEW of our monthly bulletin GEAB (April, 2017). Subscribe here ! This expression “chaotic recomposition” seems best to summarise the phase where we currently are with regards to the development of the crisis, a step indicated here as extending over four years and which will include distinct progression phases. It is quite clear ...
Read More »US Elections – Europe – World: What will the domino effect look like? (Excerpt GEAB November 2016)
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election creates the conditions for change, but it is not change yet, contrary to what the media and populists believe. Far from being a “revolution”, the Trump’s advent at the head of the Western system corresponds to a radicalisation of the ex-ante situation. ...
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 »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 »The military or Erdogan, again (Excerpt GEAB October 2015)
This article was published by our team in October 2015, in a very specific context: the Russian crisis was not solved yet, Syrian trap, Erdogan having political difficulties etc. We can verify today the precision of this anticipation, and more precisely of the possibility of a “coup d’etat”. The other ...
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 ...
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