My name is Stéphanie Mareva Failloux. I am from Tahiti and have lived in Paris for twenty-five years. After graduating in 1997, I started my career in finance, first at Banque Paribas and then at Lehman Brothers in London and Paris. In 2006, I set up a financial advising company, OraNui Finance, based in Paris […]
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In the past few months we have seen our world transformed in ways never before seen in our lifetimes. We will continue to be negatively impacted for months, possibly years… but, what if something good could come out of this? What if we used this deeply arduous experience to transform certain aspects of our lives
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What a year 2020 is turning out to be. Even if there had been no Covid-19, climate-related disasters such as the wildfires in the US and Australia, the melting ice caps and the destruction of the rain forests in Brazil and South East Asia (and as I write, the hurricane season is only just getting
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Policymakers all over the globe are looking at how to tackle the risks associated with the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In April 2019, the EU published its guidelines on ethics in AI, thereby positioning itself as a frontrunner on AI policy. Ethical rules on AI, where they exist, are essentially self-regulatory, and there is
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There is no equivalent for the Covid-19 crisis in modern history, neither in its suddenness nor in its intensity. The economic shock will be substantial, with many business bankruptcies and a leap in unemployment rates. Moreover, the consequences will be much harder for those in the lower echelons of society. During exceptional disasters, we naturally
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Germany may have bagged itself a universal basic income (UBI) through a legal back door. We’ll never know if the judges at the German Supreme Court in Karlsruhe were fully aware of the enormous consequences of their verdict last year. Probably not, because what they ruled on, at least officially, was not “Should there be a
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Europe’s prospects could not be better, but its challenges have rarely been greater. First, COVID-19 has only accelerated problems that were already present: economic and social stress, unemployment, general sentiments towards lack of progress, and identity conflicts. This is giving rise to populist and conspiratory forces. Second, there is the seemingly binary choice between aligning
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COVID-19 begins to recede in Europe, for now at least. The recovery begins. It will be a long way back. There are more than 130,00 deaths across the EU attributed to the coronavirus. Some 30 million workers in the EU (a quarter of the workforce) were on government funded job retention schemes. The EU alone
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In the recent weeks we have seen the world face an unprecedented pandemic, and our societies and economies slowly grind to a halt. While our leaders are scrambling to prepare an immediate response, both in terms of public health and to mitigate the economic slowdown, long-term challenges such as climate change will not disappear. While
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The Greek philosopher Diogenes once said that the foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Despite the antiquity of this statement, his words are still relevant today. However, fast forward to 2020, what does Diogenes’ statement mean for the education of our youth in a modern world where nation-states are exposed to
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