Latest update: 01/05/2012 

- Angela Merkel - ECB - Economic growth - economy - euro - François Hollande - Nicolas Sarkozy - Spain


Europe's groundswell for growth

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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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Egypt on edge: calls for change, but a transition to what? (part 2)
31/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge: calls for change, but a transition to what? (part 2)

Despite Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reshuffling his cabinet and appointing his first ever vice-president, there's no let-up in the protests calling for him to go. François Picard's panel debates what the role of the army could be in a transition process, and who of the civilian and Islamist opposition is best placed to take the reins of the Arab world's most populous nation.
Egypt on edge: calls for change, but a transition to what?
31/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge: calls for change, but a transition to what?

Despite Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reshuffling his cabinet and appointing his first ever vice-president, there's no let-up in the protests calling for him to go. François Picard's panel debates what the role of the army could be in a transition process, and who of the civilian and Islamist opposition is best placed to take the reins of the Arab world's most populous nation.
Davos: have they learned anything? (Part 2)
28/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Davos: have they learned anything? (Part 2)

Do they get it in Davos? Bankers are back, parties are back but with a jobless recovery in the West and rising staple item prices already sparking social unrest in the Arab World, François Picard’s panel argues over the right path for the world’s high and mighty.
Davos: have they learned anything?
28/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Davos: have they learned anything?

Do they get it in Davos? Bankers are back, parties are back but with a jobless recovery in the West and rising staple item prices already sparking social unrest in the Arab World, François Picard’s panel argues over the right path for the world’s high and mighty.
Washington and the Arab world (Part 2)
26/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Washington and the Arab world (Part 2)

Don't make a push for democratic change in Egypt if you can't back it up. So warns one of François Picard's panellists as guests debate the relative merits of George W Bush's Freedom Agenda, and note the contrast between the Obama administration's silence after Egypt's allegedly rigged legislative elections and its call for more free speech today.
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