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08/09/2008

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Adler, Alexandre

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Le Figaro - France | 19/01/2008

The disappearance of traditional political divides

The columnist Alexandre Adler observes the emergence across the planet of "political formations whose main programmes are linked to territorial problems, issues of geopolitical adherences, and fundamental culture, far more than to the former political criteria of left and right. ... However, like any other historical event, this carries a dark side: the dissolution of old solidarities, as much among social-democrats as among Christian democrats, often for the benefit of more national causes. This reversal immediately represents grave dangers for the EU. ... Like their Flemish cousins, the Germans, Dutch and Scandinavians have all had enough of maintaining budgetary discipline that ensures the strength of the euro while the French and Italians for examples are freeing themselves of this discipline once again, all parties included."

Le Monde - France | 04/10/2006

Defending freedom of expression

The daily has published an appeal in support of Robert Redeker signed by a score of public figures. "A handful of fanatics is currently brandishing so-called religious laws in order to call into question our country's most fundamental freedoms. This threat comes in addition to the mutterings here and there in Europe that provocation should be avoided to spare supposed foreign sensibilities ... Times are once again hard in Europe. This is no time for cowardice. We therefore solemnly appeal to the authorities not only to continue to protect, as they already are doing, Robert Redeker and his family, but, in a strong political gesture, to pledge to meet his material needs as long as he is danger, just as the British authorities did throughout the duration of the Rushdie affair."