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.

DEBATE

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

03/02/2011 - The Debate

Clashes in Cairo

Does it have to end badly? Cairo this Wednesday was rocked by charging camels and hours of pitched battles between pro and anti-Mubarak supporters. François Picard's panel argues over the next move of the president, the army and the opposition. (Photo credit: Mehdi Chebil).

01/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge (part 2)

Hosni Mubarak remains in charge but if Tuesday's million man march lives up to its billing, the France 24 Debate wonders if he can still hang on. If not, who to fill his shoes? Answers range from the secular opposition to Islamists and the army.

01/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge

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.