The Socialist Party primary elections are an indication that this week, as well as the following weeks, in the French media and in the debates between political leaders, left and right, the discussion will be mainly about old disputes, new alliances, jobs for young people, de-globalization, generational contract, and other exciting issues…
While the Socialists allowed themselves to be trapped in a strange primaries debate (where the candidates only questioned themselves on subjects that are not of presidential competency, but of parliamentary competency, without being asked anything neither on defense, Europe or foreign policy, any of the major social issues for which the president is accountable) preparing the moment when the right will say…
Sunday, September 25, 2011, 11:00 P.M: joint statement of the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy and of the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.
One of the few constants in political science, is that in any democracy, an outgoing majority has the greatest difficulty in getting re-elected when unemployment rate is decreasing. Unemployment will be the main enemy of Barak Obama in one year from now, as it will be in a few months, that of Nicolas Sarkozy.
The departure of Steve Jobs, resigning as Apple’s CEO, after a cancer recurrence diagnosed seven years ago, is an opportunity to reflect on the role of innovations in history.
The architecture of monetary Europe is insufficient. This weakness may lead to a worsening of the economic and social crisis.
Markets leave no respite to the peoples as long as politicians do not act as statesmen.
Strange irony: 2012 will be for many democracies, starting with ours, a very important election year. And in all other countries subject to dictatorships, peoples are yearning for free elections. The whole of humanity thus seems to take control of its destiny.
The Greek financial crisis is neither Greek, nor financial anymore. It is a political crisis of Europe as a whole.
