2014/04/30 LEAP/E2020 Press Review on the Global Systemic Crisis. Libertad, Igualdad, Pluralidad.

GEAB excerpt - The United States' desperate solutions for not sinking alone... Crisis Alert for European governance

For several months as well, we have alluded to the idea of a Europe at the crossroads. In addition, LEAP generally has long advocated closer Euro-BRICS ties as a condition of a non-contentious cooperation between the different global centres. But today Europe has begun to lose the sense of its own destiny, its responsibilities and values… along with its independence and promise of peace

LEAP/E2020 - Excerpt GEAB N°84 (April 2014)

TPP Is Right Where We Want It: Going Nowhere

President Obama is on a diplomatic tour of Asia this week and one of his top priorities is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement that includes restrictive copyright enforcement measures that pose a huge threat to users’ rights and a free and open Internet...

EFF

Chart of the Week: U.S. middle class no longer the world’s richest

Economic inequality is in the news in a way it hasn’t been for a long time. Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century, which argues that the innate dynamics of capitalism cause income gaps to widen, has become a surprise best-seller (so much so that Amazon listed it as “temporarily out of stock”)...

Pew Research

Vente d’Alstom : un sujet explosif pour l’Etat qui veut sauver l’ancrage français

François Hollande a réuni dimanche soir à l'Elysée Manuel Valls, Arnaud Montebourg et Segolène Royal. Le conseil d'administration d'Alstom "poursuit sa réflexion" et se donne jusqu'à mercredi matin pour informer le marché. D'ici là, le titre reste suspendu...

Les Echos

Astrid : un réacteur nucléaire de quatrième génération pour 2020

Baptisée « Astrid », cette nouvelle technologie nucléaire à neutrons rapides pourrait présenter alors de nombreux avantages en termes d’économie des ressources d’uranium et de gestion des déchets radioactifs...

PaperBlog

ALSTOM - SIEMENS is the only merger fulfilling a strategic European common interest

Today, European citizens discovered that the GE (General Electric) considers buying Alstom's energy sector, depriving not only France but Europe of two key sectors in its development as a continent at the head of world industry and research, both in the transport sector than energy...

Newropeans Magazine

Pfizer confirms bid interest in AstraZeneca

US drugs giant Pfizer has confirmed it has contacted AstraZeneca over a possible multi-billion pound takeover. Pfizer said it made an initial approach in January in an offer worth £58.8bn, but on Saturday had approached AstraZeneca for a second time...

BBC

Energy Future Holdings Files for Bankruptcy

Energy Future, which listed assets of $36.45 billion in court papers, is the eighth-biggest bankruptcy of all time, according to information compiled by BankruptcyData.com...

Wall Street Journal

[Ukraine] Je suis dérouté – quelqu’un pourrait-il m’expliquer ?, par le journaliste britannique Neil Clark

Je suis dérouté. Il y a quelques semaines, on nous disait en Occident que les gens qui occupaient les bâtiments administratifs en Ukraine – c’était bien. Ces gens, nous disaient nos leaders politiques et observateurs médiatiques éminents, « protestent pour la démocratie »...

Les Crises

China allows gold imports via Beijing, sources say, amid reserves buying talk

China has begun allowing gold imports through its capital Beijing, sources familiar with the matter said, in a move that would help keep purchases by the world's top bullion buyer discreet at a time when it might be boosting official reserves...

Reuters

Why almost everyone hates the trade deal Obama’s negotiating in Japan 24/04/2014

As President Obama spends his first day in Asia Wednesday, one of the big topics will be the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that his administration has spent years negotiating. It's a giant unwieldy treaty that has inspired many strong opinions at home and abroad...

Washington Post

Turkish PM offers 'condolences' to Armenia over WWI killings 24/04/2014

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday (23 April) offered condolences to the grandchildren of Armenians killed by Ottoman leaders one hundred years ago during World War 1...

EUObserver

German bank KfW issues first Renminbi bond in Frankfurt

German state-owned development bank KfW issued the first Renminbi bond in Frankfurt on Tuesday, making another important step to promote Frankfurt as a financial center for RMB.

Shangai Daily

UK loses challenge to EU financial transaction tax

European judges in Luxembourg dismissed the UK’s first attempt to block the tax, saying that UK pleas were “directed at the elements of a future tax” which has yet to be agreed.

FT

La Chine soutient un traité de libre-échange en Asie-Pacifique, concurrent du TPP

Pékin souhaite un vaste accord de libre-échange dans l'Asie-Pacifique, a indiqué un haut responsable mercredi, alors que les négociations s'éternisent sur le projet concurrent de Partenariat trans-Pacifique (TPP), mené par les Etats-Unis et qui exclut la Chine. Pékin a proposé de mettre sur pied un "groupe de travail" pour étudier la faisabilité d'un "Accord de libre-échange Asie-Pacifique" (FTAAP), a annoncé à des journalistes Wang Shouwen, ministre-assistant du Commerce.

Les Echos

BNP pourrait se voir infliger une lourde amende aux USA

BNP Paribas a prévenu mercredi qu'un litige avec les autorités américaines au sujet de paiements impliquant des pays sanctionnés par les Etats-Unis pourrait se traduire par une pénalité financière importante, supérieure à une provision de 1,1 milliard de dollars déjà constituée fin 2013.

Challenges

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