April 7, 2015
The President of the European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, has recently proposed the creation of a common army in charge of defending the EU in case of external aggression. Unfortunately, chances for the success of such a project are rather slim. Governments of member states have jealously guarded their prerogatives of framing foreign policy and… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
March 18, 2015
Over the past fifty years or so geopolitics has not very often come to have a big influence over major economic decisions in the Western world. Case in point, as President Obama’s speeches have proved it over and over in recent years, American officials are known to dislike geopolitics quite a lot. On the other… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
March 3, 2015
A number of trade unions have recently denounced McDonalds’ fiscal optimisation policies. According to the unions’ experts, between 2009 and 2013 McDonalds paid only 16 million euros in profit taxes across the EU states in which it operates instead of the 1.06 billion euros it should have paid if tax avoidance schemes had not been… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
January 28, 2015
Suite à la publication, l’automne dernier, de la version numérique de mon livre « Le nouveau pivot géographique de l’histoire », je m’attendais de vendre en France et dans les pays francophones quelques dizaines d’exemplaires, voire plus. La géopolitique, après tout, est devenue récemment un sujet «à la mode » parmi les intellectuels, comme le… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
January 16, 2015
In the wake of the tragic massacre of cartoonists from Paris on the 7th of January, most major news services around the Western world, from The New York Times to The Guardian and Deutsche Welle, have highlighted in editorials the dire living conditions in which many French Muslims are forced to live. To be… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
December 24, 2014
Turkey has today announced its budget for 2015. Total spending is estimated at 225 billion dollars, whereas revenue is expected to be around 216 billion USD, leaving a deficit of only 9 billion USD. The biggest items on its expenditure list are health and education, with 38 billion dollars earmarked for each, which is a… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
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, Africa, E.U., EU Priorities and Opinion, Islam, Middle East, Turkey |
December 17, 2014
The numerous geopolitical tensions in 2014 in Ukraine, Syria or Iraq could not obscure the fact that the most worrying problems in the world today are economic, and not geopolitical, in nature. The total failure of austerity policies within the EU is by now the most pressing concern of governments from the North to the… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
October 29, 2014
In the wake of Maidan, a new diplomatic scandal has erupted, this time in the heart of Europe, in Hungary. Like in Kiev, it again involves an old acquaintance of ours: Victoria Nuland, the diplomat responsible for European Affairs within the US State Department. Hungary is currently in the process of converting Swiss franc- and… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
October 12, 2014
Pour ceux qui s’intéressent à la géopolitique globale, la version française de mon livre sur la théorie du pivot est maintenant disponible sur la plate-forme Kobo (Fnac) à l’adresse suivante : Le nouveau pivot géographique de l’histoire La fin de la thalassocratie anglo-saxonne Depuis la défaite de Napoléon, deux pays maritimes – l’Angleterre et les… » read more
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, China, E.U., geo-economics, Russia, USA |
September 22, 2014
Two states from two very different regions of the world, steeped in different cultures and religions, are these days in the throes of civil war and face disintegration. I am referring, of course, to Iraq in the Middle East and Ukraine in Eastern Europe. If anyone had the curiosity to ask why two such different… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
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, E.U., geo-economics, Iraq, New American Century, Russia, USA |
Florian Pantazi is an historian and geopolitical consultant. The focus of his research is the European Union's role as a global actor.
