It was the good student of the global class

A century ago still the formula "the white man's burden" was referring to the "Imperial" responsibilities of some European nations. Thirty to forty years, will it speak of the "white man's loneliness" for the new global demographic revolution Demography is certainly not an exact science. How many predictions are proven to be inaccurate Did not mid 1960s - before the green revolution - that the world would be unable to feed its inhabitants

Nevertheless seems to double economic and demographic trend emerge on the horizon of 2030-2040 years. Demographically, the Western world should represent only 12 of the world's population and 6 of Europeans. In 1913, Europe was a little more populated than China! On the economic plan, in terms of world gross product, the Western world as a whole should return to the level that was reached by Europe in the 18th century, i.e. 30. The West accounted for 68 of world production in 1950. We are indeed witnessing a form of "return to the past" and we find the place that was ours before China began the beginning of its decline at the beginning of the 19th century. The time of the domination of the West on the world is ended, accelerated by our mistakes and our lightweight. We entered a new historic cycle where demographic, there will be proportionally less of the West and most of Africa and Middle East, and, no doubt geopolitical and geo-economic plan much of Asia.

How can we reconcile these trends in the medium and long term with the developments of this immediate Placed in historical perspective, recent misunderstandings transatlantic, as the non-venue of Barack Obama in the euroamerican Summit of Madrid, constitute a genuine non-event. Perhaps itself engaged in a process of relative decline if not absolute, America gives the impression to ignore a Europe which is no longer in his eyes, compared to Asia and the Middle East, neither a problem nor a solution. Truth be told, it would be attempting to use a formula chiselled in the time of the cold war to describe the respective development of the United States and the Soviet Union and speak today of "competitive decadence" between the two shores of the Atlantic. Deliberately provocative manner, a part of the American press already speaks of Barack Obama as of a "second Jimmy Carter" and he predicted a single term. This is not serious. What is even more sclerosis which seems to suffer the American political system and its difficulty to overcome partisan divisions and to forge consensus. The institutions of America have aged as its infrastructure. They have more than two centuries and were designed for an essentially agrarian world at the time. They must be refreshed. Is this possible

With regard to the European Union, it is not what will not happen in Madrid (the non-venue of Barack Obama) which is serious; This is what happened in Copenhagen last December. At the Summit "to save the planet", Europe came with a common and overall responsible position. It showed the way to the other major players. It was the good student of the global class. It was not audible. The United States and China were simply divided over his head, ignoring completely. The lesson for the European Union is brutal and can be summarized as follows: you can't have the ambition to be a model if it is more seen as a player. How be taken seriously by others if it does not for the serious yourself What about lady Ashton, who, to justify his non-déplacement in Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake, said that it was not nurse or firefighter The revolutionary changes taking place on demographic and economic our squabbles of ego are all just ridiculous.