The GEAB is a crisis bulletin, but our team of researchers often explores how the system is being mended and reinvented. Not in this issue entirely dedicated to anticipating the giga-crises that the final period of systemic transition promises. Europe is at the centre of this exercise of observation of ...
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Citizens’ assemblies to the rescue of the European construction, by Jordi Lafon
Related to the GEAB article, “People’s anger: it’s politics stupid! “1, Jordi Lafon* offers us here an analysis of the hopes and possible risks brought by the democratic experiences of citizens’ assemblies that are multiplying, particularly in Europe. As the European parliamentary democracies continue to run out of steam, new ...
Read More »GEAB – A much-awaited January edition and its series of Trends for 2019
The much-awaited January edition and its collection of trends for the coming year has arrived. The 2019 panorama drawn up by the GEAB team is a lot less bleak than those suggested by the press, unanimously terrified by change, the new generations, the prospect of its own disappearance… in a ...
Read More »Future eurozone governance : Bringing Europe into the XXIst century, by M.-H. Caillol
In a European Union in great practical and moral difficulty, the eurozone is looking more and more like Europe’s ‘hard-core’ – that has resisted the shocks absorbed by our continent in the past 10 years better than the rest. And this is to be expected: the eurozone is composed of ...
Read More »The euro, a “vector” currency in a multi-monetary system, by Pierre Calame*
Selected pieces of “Euroland at a crossroads“: Excerpt from Pierre Calame’s book “Petit Traité d’Œconomie” published in April 2018 by Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer – ECLM “Until the mid-XVIIIth century, one spoke of eoconomy instead of economy: from oïkos (home) an nomos (law). The oeconomy refered to the wise government ...
Read More »The end of pyramidal structures: Relativisation of the sovereignty of the State from above – the European Union (excerpt from Marc Luyckx’ book “Co-creating the new civilisation”)
The European Union is a new level of power to which States are invited to surrender part of their sovereignty in order to exert it together at a more global level—that of the European Union. This is a new level of power above the State. But the EU is neither ...
Read More »Information/invitation – First Euroland Governance 2020 seminar: Toward a political and democratic union of the Euroland
” 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 ...
Read More »Euroland facing a Dollar collapse, by Franck Biancheri (February 15, 2006, excerpt GEAB N°2)
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 »Reform of Global Gouvernance as a matter of urgency – The Euro-BRICS rapprochement at the service of the system’s upgrade or as a matrix of a new model ?
Strategic note, derived from the 4th Euro-BRICS seminar (Moscow, May 23-24th 2013) 04/07/2013 SEMINAR’S FULL REPORT RECOMMANDATIONS AUX DIRIGEANTS DU G20, EN AMONT DU SOMMET DE ST PETERSBOURG Chinese translation of the Strategic Note Portuguese translation of the Strategic Note Russian translation of the Strategic Note The crisis of legitimacy ...
Read More »Nation-States, Europe, Regions and…. Macro-Regions: A look into regional integration as a structure of Euroland governance
par Christel Hahn 04/02/2013 Last summer (29.6.2012) the leaders of the alpine regions met in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. In a way this was one of many similar meetings, but it was exceptional, because the number of participating regions had increased, among the participants there were representatives of the ...
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