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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Europe postpones crisis solution
The EU summit planned for next week in Brussels has been postponed because the heads of government have not yet been able to clarify their positions on a debt restructuring for Greece and the recapitalisation of European banks. This delay is dangerous and typical of Europe's handling of the crisis, writes the business paper Les Echos: "Reviewing the crisis management by the Eurozone leaders ... since the beginning of the Greek crisis at the start of 2010 there has been one constant: the propensity to deny reality and put off to the last possible moment the measures that are expected by the markets and our G20 partners and recommended by numerous experts. ... It is only now, in the last couple of days - when we are once more on the edge of the abyss - that the need for the recapitalisation of certain banks is finally on the agenda, although it has long been known that this was necessary to resolve the debt crisis. ... The costs of the procrastination - a loss of credibility for political leaders, recession and perhaps worse - have been largely underestimated."
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Laurent Cohen-Tanugi on the new US agenda
In the business paper Les Echos the lawyer and essayist Laurent Cohen-Tanugi analyses why Europe is not high on the new US agenda: "[The election of Barack Obama] is first and foremost an important - and moving - American affair. ... If you add to this the seriousness of the economic and financial crisis which has put the world's biggest powers in a topspin, you will understand that the agenda of Obama's advisors ... must first of all be focused on a national level. That does not mean that the new team in Washington will not be more open to Europe. But those Americans who are the first to see Europe as a privileged partner are also those who expect the most from it. ... The trio Sarkozy-Brown-Merkel is far more alluring, coherent and constructive than the Chirac-Schröder-Putin front. ... And the European Union has shown true leadership under the French EU Council presidency. ... But this is not enough in the face of an America that has gathered new strength through a historic election, and above all in view of the many serious and potentially conflict-laden issues on both sides of the Atlantic and within the European Union. At the top of Obama's list are Afghanistan and Pakistan, the nuclear programme in Iran, Russia and the question of Nato expansion and the missile defence shield, not to mention Iraq and the Middle East."
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Europe's place in French political debate
"If foreign policy and France's position in the world have been largely absent in the presidential campaign, Europe is slightly better off", considers the lawyer and essayist Laurent Cohen-Tanugi. "The 'no' vote in the referendum of May 29th 2005 having put France in a problematic situation, to say the least, regarding its European heritage and 'future', the main candidates were indeed unable to avoid telling voters how they intend to get the country - and the European Union with it - out of the deadlock. Thus Europe is, for once, a discriminatory factor in this election. ... Whoever moves into the Elysée palace will have to dispense with the ambivalence that has all too long burdened France's European policy."
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