Month: July 2023

The second panel of the Schiller Institute conference in Strasbourg was opened by Jacques Cheminade, President of the Solidarité et Progrès political party in France, who characterized the current historical period as “the battle between the Malthusian, domineering financial oligarchy that occupies our Western countries and those who believe that the human species has a right to development.” Jacques Cheminade […]

“At present, changes unseen for a century are taking place at an accelerated pace, giving rise to unprecedented transformations of our world, our times and history.” With those words, H.E. Lu Shaye, Ambassador of China in France, began his speech to the Schiller Institute conference in Strasbourg. We highlight a few excerpts here, and the full speech will be published […]

We provide here excerpts from the speech that Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche delivered in Strasbourg. The full text will be published on the EIR website (larouchepub.com). What a joy to welcome people from so many nations here in person, after circumstances forced us to hold our Schiller Conferences only virtually for over three years! But we used this time […]

Schiller Institute International Conference July 8-9, 2023 in Strasbourg, France SATURDAY, JULY 8 PANEL I – Peace in the World through a New Security and Development Architecture for Each and Every Country. The Indispensable Strategic Autonomy of European Countries. MODERATOR: Harley Schlanger Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, Germany: keynote H.E. Lu Shaye, Ambassador of the People’s […]

At the NATO Summit in Lithuania, on July 11-12, the trans-Atlantic powers plan to escalate the war against Russia, while simultaneously expanding the supposedly “North Atlantic” alliance into Asia. Although the failure of Ukraine’s much-heralded “counter-offensive” against Russia’s solid lines of defense, was totally foreseeable and is now universally recognized, there is still no attempt from those powers to press […]

The “Summit for a New Global Financial Pact” in Paris, June 22-23, turned out to be more controversial than host Emmanuel Macron had expected. Among the attendees were many of the leaders of Western European, African and Latin American nations, as well as the heads of the IMF, World Bank, U.S. Treasury Department, the ECB and the European Commission (cf. […]

As ECB chairwoman Christine Lagarde announced more interest rate hikes for the future on June 27, reactions among economists split between those who said “it’s too much” and those who said “it’s too little”. While the former warn that EU economies are already in a recession and higher interest rates will inflict more damage, the latter insist that inflation in […]

On June 27, in Nanterre, a working-class suburb of Paris, a 17 year old youth, Nahel, was shot and killed in his vehicle by a policeman, during a police control. It is this incident which set off an explosion of violence in the poorer districts of France, with rioting five nights in a row, leading to 5000 cars burned, 1000 […]

As the Environment Committee of the European Parliament failed to reach a majority in favor of the infamous EU “renaturation” bill on June 27, mainstream media launched the alarm: the Green Deal is threatened with failure. Indeed, 44 EMPs had voted for, and 44 against the bill. Remarkably, while the CDU and so-called “right-wing” factions voted against, the Liberals split, […]

The third week of trading on the stock markets in June ended with a spectacular 37% drop in the shares of Siemens Gamesa. The company, a merger since 2016 of the former wind power division of Siemens Energy and the Spanish wind power system producer Gamesa, had been incurring losses for some time by then, which led Siemens Energy to […]