Every day the number of people infected and deaths due to coronavirus passes a milestone. China is by far the most affected region in the world, despite the exceptional measures that the country has taken. Draconian measures to lock up tens of millions of people in
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Disobey me?! Regards croisés sur la désobéissance civile en démocratie, face à l'urgence écologique - Ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Bernard Lemoult et Marine Jaffrézic - Edition du Collège des Transitions Sociétales c/o IMT Atlantique, 12 février 2020 - 289 Pages Dominique Bourg, Sandrine Roudaut, Guillaune Durin, Extinction Rebellion,
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The Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale and Synopia are organising a round table on Thursday 17 October 2019, from 7 pm to 9 pm, on the theme "Lobbying: a good or an evil for Europe, its democracy and its economy? The decisions taken in Brussels are sometimes perceived as the "best or worst" for Europe.
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Release of the book "Regression de la démocratie et déchainement de la violence" by Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, published by Textuel. This book offers a lucid analysis of the crisis of democracy. While all the regimes claim to be so, the idea of democracy is today devoid of meaning. Reduced to a whole
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According to a report published by the United Nations, the world is increasingly threatened by "climate apartheid". A world where the rich pay to escape the heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of humanity suffers. In a
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The European Union is increasing the number of bilateral free trade agreements, in all opacity. This is the analysis and point of view of the foodwatch association, which defends the rights of consumer citizens to greater transparency in the food sector and access to healthy food. A few days before the European elections, the organisation
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In a period of infobesity, everything is on the same level: news overwrites previous information in a few minutes. The scrolling of the data participates in the permanent zapping. One craze follows another like so many straw fires, without necessarily many long-term commitments. This turmoil contributes to the dislocation of institutions.
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For the past three months, France seems to have been bewitched by the Yellow Vests movement. At first, the demonstrations, the occupation of roundabouts, the emergence of new figures, attracted the sympathy of a majority of our fellow citizens. But as time went by, the movement shrank like a skin of sorrow, leaving only a few of our fellow citizens with a sense of belonging.
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A teacher-researcher at Sciences Po, Pascal Perrineau has been named one of the five guarantors of the great national debate, alongside Nadia Bellaoui, Guy Canivet, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin and Jean-Paul Bailly. Appointed by the government and the presidents of the EESC, the National Assembly and the Senate, the five "guarantors" will be required to
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Our French culture has in its DNA a propensity to let violence happen. Our relationship to authority is ambiguous; we are both very sensitive to it, frequently opposing it, in a chronic rebellious jouissance, while also seeking to exercise it. The figures of power fascinate us first of all,
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The President of the Republic today launched the Great National Debate on 15 January. It will last two months and proposes a form of response to the crisis the country is going through. Crisis known as the Yellow Vests crisis but which is broader than this movement. A crisis of politics, of
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The Yellow Vest crisis revealed the role of social networks as a driving force and catalyst for the movement. How to govern in the age of Facebook? While President Macron is trying, by solemnly speaking to the French, to find solutions to the Yellow Vest crisis, a deep gulf seems to have opened up.
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Crisis of confidence between citizens and their representatives, difficulties for the latter to carry out their public service missions, mistrust in the face of programmes that do not or no longer correspond to collective aspirations, nor to the realities on the ground, ... The list is long for the widening gap.
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Whether or not he obtains a parliamentary majority, Emmanuel Macron will have to show that politics can be done differently; that it is possible to organize real citizen debates for each change that engages the future. The time for deliberative democracy has come. Let us not sulk at our pleasure. In my previous letter
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Announce the launch of the constituent assembly process at the Summit of Heads of State in Rome in March 2017; complete the regional panels by May 2018; put the proposals resulting from this citizens' process on the table of the new Parliament and the new Commission. This is the ideal timetable for
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The international colloquium of Gis Démocratie et Participation will be held on 26, 27 and 28 January 2017 on the theme of current democratic experiments: convergences, fragmentations, political implications. A diagnosis is more and more shared: democracy needs to be rebuilt. Grasping the multiple forms of participation
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As #Nuitdebout (Standing Night) is touring the Place de la république in Paris and spreading to other cities in France to reappropriate democracy, a citizens' initiative is beginning to make its mark: #MaVoix, a citizens' collective that aims to reinvent democracy. The press is intrigued
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Communities: this term refers to small entities, based on a common belief, common practices, common ideas, something in common. In its contemporary usage, it refers to minority groups. Minority and yet structured within the "society", which itself is a brew
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