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"We are paying for thirty to forty years of progressive abdication of political responsibility"

2020-12-13T19:55:22.257Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - Henri de Castries, president of the Institut Montaigne (liberal think-tank), analyzes the upheavals that Europe and the world have experienced in 2020 due to the health crisis and its economic and social extension.


LE FIGARO.

- 2020 has been a year like no other.

The pandemic has swept everything away.

What do you remember?

Henri de CASTRIES.

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One way to take a step back is to think of the Covid-19 crisis as a chemical experiment, an event which, like a drop dropped in a test tube, causes a precipitate and reveals very deep trends.

What do we observe?

One, the world has this time really realized that the rivalry between the West and China is not just commercial, but strategic and systemic.

Two, technological transformation has accelerated tremendously.

Some surf this wave, others drown in it.

Three, the whole world - and not just states and some NGOs, but also businesses and citizens - has seized on the climate emergency;

innovation, technology, which also allowed us to continue to run society and the economy during containment, are starting to bring us

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Source: lefigaro

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