New champions is the title of east 49, available at newsagents, in pdf format or from Apple-stores from the 1st of September 2013.
Giuliano Amato explores potential ballot box dilemmas on the eve of the spring European: what new European Parliament can we expect?
New Champions is the title of the dossier focusing on the so called BRICS countries, the club of emerging nations, and on the new MIST upstarts. The new champions are rich and poor, tough and fragile, a melting pot of social and political contradictions that are currently being displayed on the squares and streets in these countries.
It’s a global wager as we are told by the European Commission for Trade Karel De Gucht: Europe must move away from providing co-operation and start becoming a partner of the new champions that are now coming of age.
Middle East: Where Do We Go Now? is the question posed by Fadi Elhusseini and Shyam Bhatia faced with the recent Egyptian and Syrian events which seem to chronicle a failure… of democracy? suggests Mana Neyestani.
Even in Europe there are many turbulent issues: the referendums in the United Kingdom, the French disillusionment, Italian abstentionism, the State expropriations in Spain… What future for national democracies? asks Giuseppe Scognamiglio in his editorial. But the real revolution could hinge around 3D printers which might bring about a new industrial revolution and rewrite current consumption models and the balance of world power.
east 49 awaits you at newsagents and from September 4 in bookshops as well.
