Make-Up Or Break-Up: Europe at the crossroads

As leaders from the world's biggest economies get ready for this weekend's G8 summit in the US, some emerging market countries might be asking themselves if they want to take economics lessons from Europe. Zero (or below zero) growth, crippling debt, and a common currency constantly under threat....Europe's economy is the crisis that never went away. Laura Baines' panel discusses what, if anything, can be done to fix it.

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Alessandro GIRAUDO, Chief Economist, Viel-Tradition; Author, "Legends and Myths in Economics";
Markus KERBER, Professor, Technische Universität Berlin;
Guillaume DUVAL, Editor in Chief, "Alternatives Economiques";
Thomas HOUDAILLE, Secretary General of EuropaNova.

Watch the second part here.

Produced by Laura Baines, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Wassim Nasr.

Presenter

François Picard

18/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Tunisia after Ben Ali - Special programme (Part 3)

On December 17th 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian, set himself alight in protest at his treatment by local police. Exactly two months on, France 24 looks back at how one desperate act led to the fall of a dictator who had been in power for 23 years, and spread the seeds of popular revolt to an entire region.

18/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Tunisia after Ben Ali - Special programme (Part 2)

18/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Tunisia after Ben Ali - Special programme (Part 1)

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17/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Berlusconi: is Italy ashamed? (Part 2)

So is it really the end of the road for Il Cavaliere? Silvio Berlusconi’s indictment on sex charges may be the last straw although François Picard’s panel points to a weak opposition and many in Italy who are indifferent to scandal in a country that’s home to one of the E.U.’s widest gender gaps.

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