According to the popular metaphor, probably dating back to the first railway tunnels, in the late 19th century, we may soon see in Europe the light at the end of the tunnel, since it would be possible, in an optimistic vein, to think that the crisis of the euro is approaching its resolution and that a lasting solution will soon be implemented.
The economic situation of France is now clear: the country is on the very edge of a recession which will reduce tax revenues, and will make it very difficult to bring the budget deficit to 3% by the end of 2013.
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.
