Tag Archives: USA

Currently, the media is marking 10 years of a crisis they didn’t see coming in the first place and questioning experts they did not listen to at the time (at best) or who became experts after its advent (at worst). ...

Franck Biancheri, 03/01/2005 With its enlargement to ten poorer countries, the European Union is investing in the future as the gap widens in the United States between poor and rich states … I have always had some reservations about the ...

Franck Biancheri, 07/12/2004 Trump Administration Leaving U.N. Human Rights Council?  Many are worried about US President Donald Trump’s idea of “boycotting” the UN. But the divorce between the United Nations and the United States is not new. Already in 2004, ...

At the beginning of February, the US stock markets, followed by the financial markets of the rest of the world, experienced a violent correction. In two days, the Dow Jones Index erased its January gains and entered a downward spiral. ...

This kind of title sounds a bit like a topic for political science students – slightly disconnected from today’s news. In fact it is quite the contrary : this is an underlying question to a number of recent news headlines from both EU ...

This proposal results from the central objective of democratising the EU, and hence giving European citizens a say on crucial subjects, such as this one, which touch all of them collectively. This motion sets out to achieve the objectives of ...

The world was totally shocked and horrified by the disastrous show caused by Hurricane Katrina. A different America was exposed there… Beyond the material damage, the human misery emerged from the TV broadcasted images… and the revelation of the weaknesses ...

This article is based, with Franck Biancheri’s humor, on the title of an American bestseller published in March 2003: “Americans Are From Mars, Europeans From Venus” by Robert Kagan. For Franck Biancheri, Americans and Europeans are not of two different ...