The challenges ahead for France and the French people starting in 2012 are huge: a public debt equal to the GDP; 4 million unemployed people; €70 billion in external deficit, a vertiginous loss of competitiveness; an extraordinarily fast deindustrialization; uncertain energy and environmental choices; widening poverty; precariousness spreading to the middle class…
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…
Men obviously do not like prisons; or anything that can limit their lives. They do not like boundaries or constraints imposed on them by the brevity of their lives, or those imposed on them by physics. So, all the human adventure is made of escape attempts: thus, man lives longer and longer, knows the entire globe, learned how to fly, and explores the universe.
Jacques Attali will make the opening speech of the conference organized by the National Assembly of Quebec.
Jacques Atali will pronounce the opening speech in the Galerie Dorée of the Bank of France, at 9:30am.
The ceremony takes place in the theatre Athénée Louis-Jouvet, in Paris, starting from 7pm.
Jacques Attali will speak from 3:45pm to 5:15pm at the Collèges des Bernardins, in Paris. The program of the conference is available here.
