Europe's groundswell for growth

With recession spreading across the continent, will the French presidential candidates make good on their pledge to get Germany to put more of the accent on growth? François Picard's panel looks at the groundswell against austerity.

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Julia CAGE, Harvard University & The Paris School of Economics;
Harald HAU, University of Geneva & Swiss Finance Institute;
Mark DEEN, Bloomberg News;
Marina YANNAKOUDAKIS, British Conservative MEP (from London).

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Produced by Wassim Nasr, Joseph Tandy, Molly Hall

Presenter

François Picard

23/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

War over Libya

Admiral William Fallon warns the lack of a unified command is "a recipe for trouble" while UK Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn squares off against conservative French MP Jacques Myard over the merits of military intervention.

22/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Libya: What's the plan? (part 2)

The stated aim of foreign intervention is to protect Libyan civilians, but is it more about protecting oil? The Stop The War Coalition thinks so. François Picard's other guests disagree.

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22/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Libya: What's the plan?

The stated aim of foreign intervention is to protect Libyan civilians, but is it more about protecting oil? The Stop The War Coalition thinks so. François Picard's other guests disagree.

16/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Cataclysm in Japan (part 2)

In the face of its worst disaster since World War Two, faced with a major nuclear accident and rolling power outages, François Picard’s panel explains why Japan has shown amazing resilience. But will a nation that for two decades has been struggling to get out of the economic doldrums fall into irreversible decline or come out of it all galvanized?

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