💡 SPOTLIGHT2022: year of the wake-up call
The signs for 2022 may appear grim right now, but at least we know what we’re facing. Will we make the right decisions? asks Jacques Attali in French daily Les Echos.Since it’s customary to do so at this time of year, let’s try to make predictions for the next twelve months. On paper, 2022 should be a very difficult year. But by knowing that and anticipating it, we can prevent it from being so.It is quite easy to forecast a worst-case scenario: a pandemic that evades vaccines, a collapse of financial markets, hotbeds of conflicts on the borders of Europe, large countries like Ethiopia falling apart. There are also extremist movements, some claiming that all traces of the West’s past values should be erased from the memory of the world, while others say that all foreign influence should be rejected. All of this is possible. All of that…
