Melissa Bell speaks to Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance. They discuss the appeal published by Jacques Attali, the head of the WTO and other prominent economists and politicians calling for a shift to growth in the euro area and deeper integration to combat the region's debt crisis. Has the time finally come for a federal Europe?
Eight CIA agents have been killed in a suicide attack on a military base in Afghanistan’s south-eastern Khost province, US officials have announced. On the same day, four Canadian soldiers and a journalist were killed in a separate bombing.
New York, the most populous urbanised area in the world in the early 1920s, started to decline when its budget and economy were burdened with military and social spendings. Jacques Attali explains the city's economic development from 1929 to 1980.
By the end of the 19th century, the United States had set up the industrial production of electric motors, an invention that deeply transformed American society and lead to a war economy.
At the end of the 19th century, Boston, on the east coast of the United States, became the centre of global trade and industry, thanks notably to the combination of oil, the internal combustion engine, and the motor car.
At the beginning of 19th century, London was the heart of the world's market, with the pound as the main market currency. The city was a focal point for innovators, industrialists and intellectuals until it was overwhelmed by its own dominance.
Thanks to the power of steam and the growing cotton industry, London at the end of 17th century was on its way to becoming the first market democracy, creating real power for Great Britain.
Amsterdam's importance on the world stage exploded in the 17th and 18th centuries, thanks to sophisticated maritime development, advances in agriculture and industry, and the early development of international financial markets.
In the 16th century, Genoa ruled the trading of goods across the Mediterranean. But the growing influence of the Atlantic countries on trade eventually began to threaten the major economic role of the small republic.
