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.
By the time this article will be online, he might be dead. In prison. On a hunger strike. For writing on his blog what everyone knows: despite Mubarak’s departure, the Egyptian army continues to massacre peaceful demonstrators.
The year 2012 will bring together geopolitical, economic, financial, democratic, scientific and artistic promises and threats.
The Brussels agreement was approved by all. And it is an extraordinary feat of the President of the French Republic and the German Chancellor to have succeeded, (after they have themselves finally measured the extent of the short-term risks to the survival of the euro), in sharing this awareness by 26 out of 27 countries…
Every year, in keeping with tradition I venture, with more or less success, to anticipate the main economic and geopolitical events of the coming year. The exercise is increasingly necessary: we need more and more powerful headlights to venture on a road increasingly icy surrounded by ravines deeper and deeper.
A news wire reminds us that nothing has been solved in Fukushima. Not only the radioactivity continues to expand; Not only radioactive wastes from the plant are still in a spent fuel pool in the wrong place unfortunately in case of another earthquake.
