News from the CRAIG
Please view the French version for a comprehensive information. Below is just a very short list of some key events.
2014
July 19. The Secretary general of the CRAIG was asked to deliver a speech during an Iftar commemorating the 40th anniversay of the legal recognition of Islam in Belgium.
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Buegel (25.02.2014) : "The world economy is going through its biggest transformation in a relatively short space time. There have been many explanations for this phenomenon but the unprecedented scale and pace of this change and, most crucially, its implications, still seems little understood. In turn, there has been little preparation for, or adjustment to, this changing world, though if the change continues at this pace, the effectiveness of many global institutions in their current form will be threatened. (...)".
CEPS, 10.07.2013. "The crisis in the eurozone has had a dramatic impact on the economic and social fabric of European countries. However important it may be, the economic dimension is only the symptom of a broader problem. The crisis is primarily political in nature. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi argues in this book that the crisis reflects the inability of western democracies to solve problems that have been building for over two decades. He finds that democratically elected officials are loathe to take unpopular decisions that could jeopardise their re-election. Emergency thus becomes the engine of political action, and the justification for corrective measures vis-à-vis the voters. As a consequence, the cure in the form of austerity, administered belaatedly and under pressure from the markets, becomes even more painful and unpopular, giving rise to populist movements and endangering democracy itself."
Speech of José Vinals (FMI), in Brussels on Sept. 27, 2012.
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