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Acting for Syria

Geopolitics

The Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group of opposition political forces, has just turned down invitations to visit Washington and Moscow and suspended its participation in the Rome conference for the « Friends of Syria », in protest at the absence of a reaction from these « friends » over the destructions, by missile strikes from Assad’s armies…

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Europe, the Groucho Marx version

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British Prime Minister David Cameron, by asking to renegotiate the European Union Treaty, before giving Britons a straight referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave, is applying Groucho Marx’s famous dictum: “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”..

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The urgent and the important

Geopolitics

2013, a year without elections in France, started with a bang: a welcome agreement on job market reform, some high-risk military operations in Africa, where the destiny of France is decided, and protests against same-sex marriage…

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Two Europes, two Parliaments

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If we do not want the current upturn in the financial markets (which gives the illusion that the euro is saved) to be a parenthesis between two storms, it is urgent to restore economic growth and for this, to clarify the political strategy required.

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Can we still tolerate dictatorships?

Geopolitics

Since 1989 when the thaw of dictatorships began, around the world, it became increasingly difficult for public opinion in the democracies to stand by idly while revolutions were crushed by tyrants…

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Seize the last opportunity

Geopolitics

While the main heads of State and Government of the world are going to waste four days of their precious time trying to convince their public opinions that they can solve by vague press releases the problems of the world economy in Mexico, and those of the environment in Brazil, European leaders have really one last chance to decide of their destiny.

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L’Europe, en fin

Geopolitics

Si l’union européenne continue pendant quelques mois à se défaire sous nos yeux, en suivant très exactement les scénarios les plus pessimistes, ici exposés depuis des années, elle n’existera bientôt plus.

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