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…
Cette si célèbre formule de croupier s’applique à merveille à la situation du monde, en ce début du mois d’août 2012.
This eternal question, as old as humanity, has been answered in different ways over time.
From an exciting conference, bringing together, with no other purpose than that of exchanging ideas, somewhere in the U.S. this week, about thirty people of fifteen different nationalities, I glean some conclusions that perhaps can be useful to our discussions.
What is at stake for Peugeot in Aulnay goes well beyond the calling into question of the future of thousands of families: it says a lot about French society in all its dimensions. Because everyone bears a share of responsibility in this.
Like previous governments (except for, a very old one, that of Pierre Mauroy in 1981), the present government considers that it can neither pronounce the word discipline, nor let it pronounce by any member of its majority. It sees there the guilty admission of a desire to involve all the French people in the national recovery effort.
The difference in demography between France and Germany is a crucial factor in explaining what is at stake in the crisis of the euro.
When the income of a person, family, company, association, university, hospital, or public authority stagnates or declines, the natural reaction of the person who has the handle on the purse strings is to refuse to cut spending, to try to do everything to increase his income
