Aix Economic Meetings 2025: Facing the Shock of Realities
The current upheavals are no longer a succession of isolated crises, but rather a profound and lasting shift. These shocks are multiple—climate pressures, digital disruption, demographic transition, geopolitical tension, distrust of institutions, rising inequality—and create a saturation effect that weakens benchmarks and complicates public action.
Based on this observation, the organizers of the Aix Economic Meetings, which are being held from Thursday to Saturday and of which La Croix is a partner, are proposing a series of meetings to "think about these realities in a cross-disciplinary way and outline collective responses that meet the challenges," explains its president, economist Jean-Hervé Lorenzi. "These ruptures are fraught with violence—we see this with Donald Trump—and with an identity reflex. In this context, our role is to clarify disagreements, to calm things down, and to help build consensus," continues the former professor at Paris Dauphine University.
Over three days, some 380 leading figures—economists, business leaders, politicians—are invited to debate these transformations and, above all, to propose avenues for concrete solutions. To guard against withdrawal and relaunch dialogue between states, some thirty think tanks from all walks of life (European, American, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, etc.) have also been invited. This is a first since the creation of these meetings twenty-five years ago.
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