The trip the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will make to China next week carries a much more strategic character than it seems at first sight. It starts in the South, in the city of Shenzhen which was the birthplace of the economic revolution launched by Deng Xiaoping almost forty years ago and where stands one of the few monuments elevated to honor his memory. He will go after to Shanghai, the financial hub of the country and ends in Beijing, due to protocol reasons. The trip comes in a context of a bitter trade crisis with the U.S ...

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The respite occurred on financial markets after the appointment of the new Italian government should not delude people. The fall of the Spanish government, even if it has not happened after disagreements about European issues can generate new tensions. The first meetings between these new leaders and Brussels must be watched with attention. Europe is taken in a stranglehold between internal dissent which is increasing everyday and a hostile international environment, worsened by the last decisions of the Trump administration. The project is under threat. It is not the first time. France has no choice. Its action will be decisive ...

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Karl Marx birth bicentennial has not given a place, to the difference to the 50th anniversary of May 68, to many reflections about his work and its influence. He took from Hegel the idea that the society was divided into classes and that their struggle will be a driving force. The events which have marked the first half of the 20th century, the crisis and the wars, didn’t prove he was wrong. Western Europe, once the peace has been reestablished, will learn the lessons: deep inequalities generated by the capitalist system really constitute a threat for democratic regimes which ...

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