While EU leaders were scattered, some in pathetically futile election debates , others in non-emergency travel to the new Chinese master, the markets (which we were all quite happy to use, for years, to borrow from to maintain a lifestyle which our work did not justify any more) began to hold us accountable.
Pendant que les agences de notation continuent d’oser donner leur avis sur une crise qu’elles ont contribué à provoquer par leur laxisme, pendant que les dirigeants européens continuent de tout faire pour ne rien prêter à la Grèce, tout en prétendant le contraire, pour garder leurs ultimes ressources pour leurs propres banquiers, pendant que la crise financière avance à grands pas…
The Greek situation and the debate on the burqa seem a priori irrelevant. And yet, both refer to a serious disease affecting more and more the modern State, and in particular the French government: unable to enforce the standards it…
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Dans notre monde, un événement apparemment marginal peut avoir des conséquences planétaires considérables. Seule réponse, une gouvernance mondiale.
Maybe still at the time of this writing, involuntarily delayed three days
more than planned in Washington, as hundreds of thousands of French people,
millions of Europeans stranded away from home, or others, trapped in Europe
far from their homes by the consequences, may be overstated, of the
irruption of an Icelandic volcano, I could measure the importance of these
amazing moments where the control of time escapes us. With everyone story being
interrupted: work, business, social or romantic gatherings, holidays, more
sustainable migrations.
