Contenu du sommaire : La crise économique et les Suds : nouvelles perceptions

The European Union and the debt crisis
Since the beginning of the European sovereign debt crisis, the euro zone is in the midst of a psychodrama. Series of summits, repeated bailouts, hundreds of billions of euros distributed by member states and by the European Central Bank have reassured markets temporarily, before panic resumed, with even greater violence than before. This article traces the historical background of the European sovereign debt crisis, questions the franco-german response to the crisis, but mainly asks how to get out of it. The political dimension is used to explain the crisis and to identify an exit. Indeed, even if the debt crisis came to an end in 2012, huge challenge, a wider feeling of discontent in Europe is still to be managed.

From the anti-globalization to the “Indignant” movement: a new impetus for contesting capitalism ?For a few years, we have been talking about the « breathlessness » effect of the alter-globalization. This is the case in Europe, but not necessarily elsewhere, and particularly in Latin America, where is henceforth the neuralgic heart of the movement. The recent crisis brought it to operate a profound reorientation by not being only interested in the globalization process, but also in the climatic crisis and in that of the western civilization. Since 2011, anti-globalization activists have to face the challenge of the emergence of the “Indignant” and the deglobalization movements. Alter-globalization therefore isn't dead, but has lost its dominant position in the contesting of the world economic system, and it was especially not capable to invert the balance of power in front of conservatives.

Is Nabucco dead? Long live the Southern gas corridor!
Natural gaz represents one fourth of the energy mix and energy imports of the European Union, coming especially from Russia. The latter aims to secure its exports to the EU, through the already built gas pipeline Nord Stream and South Stream project. As far as the European Commission is concerned, in order to secure the EU's supplying and to reduce its dependence on Moscow, it supports the Nabucco project aiming to avoid the use of Gazprom for gas sourcing and transit. Potential suppliers are mainly Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Yet ten years after its launching Nabucco stalls, mirror of the EU's difficulties. Meanwhile, Russia positions itself whereas many other smaller scale projects (SEEP, TANAP...) are competing in the Southern gas corridor.