The Tunisian people have just taken a major step. They are now in charge of their destiny. They must have all the tools to succeed. France, Europe, the democratic world must do everything to support them.
What is happening in Egypt, after what happened in Tunisia, is sending us back to a very old question that we have been living at least since the 1956 Hungarian Revolution: should democracies intervene to help a people who is fighting dictatorship?
When comparing the discussions on public debt in France with those taking place everywhere else in Europe, the United States or Japan, we can only be dismayed: here, on the left-wing like on the right-wing, the watchword is « Please do not talk about anything that is disturbing. And for that, let’s launch some nice little and unimportant debate. »
Nothing was more expected than the jasmine revolution.
Nothing could be less predictable than the date of its outbreak.
The appalling tragedy in Niger (a very young man hit accidentally at the edge of happiness, with a friend who came to share with him this moment) is primarily a new opportunity to ponder the enigma of the human condition :
what is life worth if it can be reduced to that?
Looking at the way, 2011 begins, in Europe, we could easily be depressed: unemployment is rising everywhere, even in Germany, where it is hidden by subsidies and misleading statistics; an unprecedented crisis of confidence in institutions; a presidency of the Union entrusted, without any protest, to a government that openly violates freedom of the press and artists.
Rien n’est plus stupéfiant, en apparence, que l’euphorie qui s’empare de tous les marchés boursiers en cette fin d’année. La plupart des analystes sont d’accord pour dire que la crise financière est finie, que les marchés financiers sont sous-évalués…
2010 will remain, in the West, as the year of the ostrich.
