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Slama, Alain-Gérard

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Le Figaro - France | 07/07/2008

Europe's ailing democracy

The newspaper Le Figaro analyses the current problems of European democracy. "On the eve of the summer holidays, when it is fitting to reflect on the events of recent months, one topic must be addressed: the malaise of democracy. Certainly, this malaise is neither recent nor new. But even in France, which together with Italy is the object of the most pessimistic prognoses, the recent presidential elections have shown that politics continue to enthral the general public, that voters remain strongly attached to their institutions and that the split between Right and Left continues to give meaning to debates about social justice, defence and ecology. Yet with the exception of Frau Merkel, who benefits from favourable economic circumstances ... not a single head of state or government has been able to escape a generalised crisis of confidence."

Le Figaro - France | 16/06/2008

A farewell to human rights

The French daily Le Figaro argues that human rights have lost their significance in international politics: "The politics of human rights was an illusion. Not in itself, but because it was based on the belief that the states and civil societies of the free world could unite to help the still 'fettered' states to freedom. ... In the meantime two Iraq wars, the Kosovo War and Al-Qaida's attack in Manhattan have changed the situation completely. They have revealed the gap between the rapid material development and the longer-lasting political development of a civilisation. One state after the next has abandoned the illusion of a human rights policy for its exact opposite: the illusion of a realpolitik which tends to be nothing more than resignation in the face of the spread of fanaticism."

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