The situation with regard to Mali is at the forefront of our preoccupations. This empire founded in the 13th century, the craddle of a thousand cultures, including that of the Dogon, is today a country split in two: in the South, a provisional government terrorized by soldiers walking up and down the streets, invading the national palaces and threatening passengers at airports.
According to the polls, which are building up without contradicting themselves more, the presidential election would seem to be over: Francois Hollande will be elected. What could still negate this forecast?
Can we still expect, just a short time before the presidential elections, to hear the presidential candidates talk about serious matters, of the competence of the next president? This is doubtful, when we see how they avoid speaking so far about any foreign policy issue…
Jacques Attali, Simone Harari et Benoît Thieulin ont lancé à la Maison de l’Europe de Paris une pétition “Pour une Eurofédération solidaire et démocratique”. Le Cercle des Européens y était. La pétition est en ligne sur www.eurofederation.eu
A video is currently experiencing a tremendous success over the Internet, revealing many dimensions of our modernity. An American NGO, “Invisible Children”, has posted on March 5, a film about thirty minutes, which denounces Joseph Kony, Ugandan warlord, leader of The Lord’s Resistance Army…
While European political circles continue to fight over an increasingly vanishing power, in the face of increasingly powerful markets, the only EU institution that can still influence reality, the Central Bank, is not under the control of any democratic institutions, for lack of a federal government of the eurozone.
La France est, en ce début de décennie, largement considérée comme une grande puissance militaire. Elle en est toujours une, à maints égards : au-delà de sa force nucléaire et de son statut de membre permanent au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, elle dispose de la deuxième zone maritime au monde et d’une capacité de projection militaire mondiale.
Germany appears, in Europe, to be taking power, and no one can blame her for it: she does what must be done, in her own interest. This week, this is confirmed by four pieces of information…
The landscape in which the French presidential elections will take place is becoming a bit clearer; It is time for the candidates to take this into account.
