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Halifa-Legrand, Sarah
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn about to update the IMF
The journalist Claude Askolovitch answers Sarah Halifa-Legrand's questions on the challenges faced by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. "The idea is to get all parties involved - western countries threatened by emerging countries, emerging countries fed up with western imperialism, suffocating third-world countries left by the wayside, Predatory China, the indebted United States - to admit that they have a common interest in the world's financial and monetary balance. An enormous amount of work lies ahead for an institution that has lost its natural place in a world that has fallen out of love with it and no longer understands it. At the same time, and this is a paradox for the IMF, DSK is also going to manage an internal crisis: having been scarcely called upon deal with State financial crises, the IMF is currently overstaffed."
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The EU at loose ends over Burma
Sarah Halifa-Legrand interviews Valérie Niquet, director of the Asian department of The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), on the use of sanctions against Burma. "Sarkozy's first declaration demanding the withdrawal of French investment in Burma, which mainly concerned Total, was an audacious but naïve demand, being very difficult to put in practice. It was probably a means of responding to the French population's emotional reaction towards the situation in Burma. ... The withdrawal of investments, sanctions, basically the strategy of marginalising the regime, is nothing new and we can see the results today: they actually made things easier for China. A power far less scrupulous about human rights has taken over. ... New sanctions will not change the situation so long as Beijing doesn't join in."
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