Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Mar 31, 2011 (IPS) – French economist Esther Duflo thinks poverty can be alleviated or even eradicated with the right policies. All it takes is for politicians to "translate research into action," implementing programmes that have been shown to work. But that is [...]
Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare Arouses French Fears
March 17, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy PARIS, March 17, 2011 (IPS) – Until the nuclear crisis started unfolding in Japan last week, most French citizens did not doubt that the country’s 58 nuclear reactors were safe enough to continue operating for scores of years to come. They ignored the evidence gathered [...]
Slammed For Its Roma Expulsions, France Shifts Rhetoric
September 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Sep 8 (IPS) – Faced with mounting criticism because of its expulsions of Roma, or Gypsies, the French government is trying to gain allies in what it calls the “battle” against undocumented immigration and people-trafficking networks. Immigration minister Eric Besson gathered officials from several [...]
USA and France Help Poland Go Nuclear
July 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Petra Ramatowski IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WARSAW (IDN) – Backed by the U.S. and France, Poland is set to tread the nuclear path and hopes to start generating atomic power by 2021. Presently, coal accounts for over 93 percent of the eastern European country’s electricity, demand for which is [...]
DISARMAMENT: France Urged to Ban Cluster Bombs
April 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Apr 22 (IPS) – Human rights groups are urging the French government to adopt a law that would ban the financing of companies that produce cluster munitions, the deadly bombs that have killed or maimed thousands of civilians in the past 40 years. France is [...]
IMF Tightening Control
April 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by David Cronin BRUSSELS, Apr 21, 2010 (IPS) – One topic regularly addressed by the public relations industry is how to turn a crisis into an opportunity. Dominique Straus–Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, might offer a case study on rising to this challenge. Under his [...]
Of Social Justice and Lack of It
March 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BERLIN (IDN) – Between the end of World War II and 1979 it was conventional wisdom in North America, Western Europe, and the industrialised countries of Asia and Oceania that taxes were the best way to make social justice dreams come true. In those [...]
Sarkozy Has Panacea Against Poverty
March 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Ronald Joshua IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprung a surprise on the international community by showing an easy way out of poverty that has been eluding practical solutions for decades now. He has discovered an energetic panacea against poverty: the cure-all nuclear power. [...]
RIGHTS-FRANCE: Homeless Prefer Streets to Gov’t Shelter
December 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Dec 20 (IPS) – They huddle in the doorways of buildings with their few belongings, trying to keep warm. Or they sleep in covered shopping centres, accompanied by their pets – usually dogs. Some, reluctantly, make their way to government-run shelters. These are France’s homeless [...]
Sarkozy’s Difficult Nuclear Heritage
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN Sarkozy’s Difficult Nuclear Heritage Credit: nuclearstreet.com By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) – French president Nicolas Sarkozy complained at an international conference March 8-9 in Paris that costs had become a decisive factor in the business of nuclear power plants. Therefore, he said, international organisations should think about [...]