The global systemic crisis increasingly conditions relations between the major global players, relativizing the bilateral aspects of their interactions by placing them in the broader context of the search for new global balances. Thus each day, for the leaders of the major powers, the central question becomes less the positioning ...
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Currencies, geopolitics, real estate, finance… 2014: the « big American retreat »
… But 2014 will experience a dramatic acceleration of this profound trend thanks to the convergence of several factors: loss of control of the world by the United States, the end of desperate rescue methods (mainly quantitative easing), a new implosion of the real estate market… Not forgetting the groundswell ...
Read More »Acceleration of the process of distinction between Euroland-EU, by Franck Biancheri (February 2012)
An excerpt from GEAB N°62 (February 2012) At the same time these two years will see the acceleration of the difference between Euroland and the EU. It is a phenomenon which will in fact characterize the whole of the decade. Euroland which functions to a large extent in the form ...
Read More »LEAP launches new working group – « Euroland Governance 2020 »: completing the Eurozone’s institutional embryo, securing its democratic articulation
For some twenty years, the building and management of Europe took place in the framework of the European Union (EU) which replaced in 1992 the previous framework, called European Community. This framework is now breathless. Questioned by member-states and citizens alike, attacked on every front, it endangers the European project ...
Read More »BoJ, Fed, ECB : with different methods, contrasting futures (Excerpt GEAB N°75, May 2013)
As we see on a daily basis, central banks play a major role in the crisis’ management. In order to see the unfolding of the global systemic crisis more clearly, we must understand how they act, the limits, the advantages, and disadvantages of their interventions. We have therefore decided to ...
Read More »La genèse d’Euroland et le rôle éminent du Parlement européen, par Harald Greib
La crise de l’Euro – l’arbre qui cache la forêt La crise de l’Euro n’est qu’une facette, certes très importante, d’une crise généralisée de l’Union européenne. Toutes les crises, dont souffrent actuellement la construction européenne – crise d’influence globale, crise d’efficacité, crise de montée des populismes anti-européens, crise de destin ...
Read More »2014 – Internationalization of the Yuan, the opening of Saudi Arabia, the implosion of the EU, and three of the last pillars of the dollar crumble
“It was night, and the rain fell; and, falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.” These words of Edgar Allan Poe (1) apply perfectly to the slow process of global dislocation now in progress, where seemingly innocuous events – like the “rain” – combine to undermine the ...
Read More »2013-2015: The end of the petrodollar’s rule over the world (excerpt February 2013 edition of GEAB)
When, in January 2006, the first GEAB issue anticipated the fall of the Dollar wall, the comparison was made between the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain which made it possible for the Soviet system to hold up for so long and the Dollar Wall which protects America. But this ...
Read More »Towards a convergence of scientific research within the Euro-BRICS nations, by Jean-Paul Baquiast
A few weeks before the passing of Franck Biancheri, and without suspecting the seriousness of his condition, I had the opportunity to discuss with him the stabilizing role that could be played in the evolution of the global world by the convergence of scientific and technological developments within the entity ...
Read More »The de-Americanisation of the world has begun – Emergence of solutions for a multipolar world by 2015 (public announcement October 2013 edition of GEAB)
It’s one of those times when history accelerates. Whatever the outcome of the negotiations on the shutdown and debt ceiling, October 2013 is one of them. It’s the deadlock too far which has opened the eyes of those who still support the United States. A leader is followed when he ...
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