Secret memo, on the management of the campaign in recent weeks
Dear friends, It goes without saying that the following note is secret and must not leave your four offices…
For a Eurofederation
Jacques Attali, Simone Harari et Benoît Thieulin ont lancé à la Maison de l’Europe de Paris une pétition “Pour une Eurofédération solidaire et démocratique”. Le Cercle des Européens y était. La pétition est en ligne sur www.eurofederation.eu
For or against « Kony 2012 »?
A video is currently experiencing a tremendous success over the Internet, revealing many dimensions of our modernity. An American NGO, “Invisible Children”, has posted on March 5, a film about thirty minutes, which denounces Joseph Kony, Ugandan warlord, leader of The Lord’s Resistance Army…
Money and Human Development
In these exclusive interviews we speak to Prof. Jacques Attali and Dr. Tilman Ehrbeck (CEO of the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor ‐ CGAP). We discuss the state of financial inclusion globally and look deeper into how microfinance, technology and other instruments are working to eradicate poverty and bring opportunity to billions worldwide.
The moment of truth
Francois Hollande’s 75 percent tax rate proposal for those with annual income of more than EUR 1 million is both totally impractical and extremely useful.
Hail the artist!
The French have a special relationship with cinema, which they invented: they see a lot of theatrical releases (over 200 million visitors in 2011); they produce a very great number of them (over 200 in 2011); they export them; they come from everywhere to shoot in France; and it is in France that the world’s largest film festival is held, which is also the world’s number one market.
For François Hollande
So, now is the time of the main French political choice.
Alea ACTA est
While European political circles continue to fight over an increasingly vanishing power, in the face of increasingly powerful markets, the only EU institution that can still influence reality, the Central Bank, is not under the control of any democratic institutions, for lack of a federal government of the eurozone.