Among emergency measures to address the crisis, is it possible to create a regulation of tax havens?
Jean Ziegler: We must eliminate them altogether. This is one of the most urgent measures to be taken. It should also abolish bank secrecy and restore the rule of a public sector when it comes to public services, reverse privatization, impose strict regulations for capital movement, ban outsourcing and regulate the stock market to avoid speculation. It is certain that the financial oligarchs who operate exclusively to maximize profit must be submitted to state regulation. Free trade is an evil when the state loses its regulating force. The interest of the country is social justice, a secure livelihood, progressive taxation to ensure a redistribution of national wealth, absolute priority given to job security, equitable distribution of resources and social democracy. Do you believe that a common front for the peoples of the South and the West might be possible? Jean Ziegler: I am sure that this process will lead to a new global social contract. The opposite of a self-regulating market is
