The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.