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 ...
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Online Debate : What will post-COVID-19 Europe look like?
200 people followed live the first “New European Perspectives” debate on “post-Covid Europe challenges” organised by Movimiento Roosevelt, LEAP and CitizensRoute on Thursday, April 2nd. The discussion is available on : In Full or 0.33 : Maria Zei (MR-CR bridge) introduces to the « New European Perspectives » series of online debates 3.05 : ...
Read More »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 »In the latest GEAB, 26 global events to envision the 4 months ahead!
To be able to advance in a complex world that is in full transition, it is helpful to have a GPS system. This quarterly calendar of future events is one of the many guides that GEAB offers to readers to help them navigate through the fog of the future. The ...
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 »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 »Euroland in the hands of Eurolanders, by Harald Greib
The present pause in the march towards the creation of the new political European entity Euroland, consequence of the approaching European elections, which virtually put the entire communitarian system on stand-by, enable us to dedicate this lead article of our April newsletter to an abnormality in the handling of the ...
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