In this holiday season, when the conversations with family and friends will multiply, the time is right to lay the foundation for future projects. Everyone, at one time or another of this fortnight, will look back over the past 12…
The Brussels agreement was approved by all. And it is an extraordinary feat of the President of the French Republic and the German Chancellor to have succeeded, (after they have themselves finally measured the extent of the short-term risks to the survival of the euro), in sharing this awareness by 26 out of 27 countries…
Every year, in keeping with tradition I venture, with more or less success, to anticipate the main economic and geopolitical events of the coming year. The exercise is increasingly necessary: we need more and more powerful headlights to venture on a road increasingly icy surrounded by ravines deeper and deeper.
L’economista francese è ottimista: ogni Stato impari a far da sé ma le istituzioni devono funzionare FrancescaPierantozzi PARIGI. Economista, scrittore, direttore d’orchestra, ex consigliere speciale di François Mitterrand,autore di oltre cinquanta libri tradotti in venti lingue, Jacques Attali è dal…
So, we are told that European democracies would die soon. They would have passed, at best, under the control of technocrats from Brussels or Frankfurt; at worst, under that of markets. And all this, of course, would be the fault of the euro, the European Union, the banks and many other people. Not ours.
Germany and France found themselves four times in one century, each in turn, in the position when they were able, through absurd or shameful decisions, to transform Europe into a field of ruins. And they did it. In 1914, both were involved in the chain of events that led to the First World War. In 1919
Jacques Attali will close the day at 6:30pm. The conference takes place in the Maison des X.
The conference takes place at the Press Club de France 8/12 rue Louis Armand 75015 Paris, in the Hôtel Pullman Rive Gauche. The debate will be monitored by André Bercoff, from 6:45pm to 8pm.
