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March 21, 2025

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Donald Trump • European Union • Gaza • Ukraine • United States

March 10, 2025

Five failures, not a single success

Donald Trump never stops singing his own praises. He probably really does believe he is truly brilliant, but apart from having caused global chaos in just seven weeks, what has…

March 3, 2025

Donald Trump’s mistake

What if we turned the question around? What if, for a moment, we stopped asking ourselves ‘what can Europe do?’ and instead asked what Trump can do after he attacked…

February 20, 2025

What determines the Union’s future more? Its frailties or its dynamic for self-assertion ?

He had not wanted it. He would not have imagined it, but thanks to Donald Trump, thanks to the Munich tirades of his vice-president and thanks to the astonishing blindness…

February 9, 2025

These ‘ Patriots for Europe ’, hardly patriots, hardly European

They call themselves ‘patriots’, but what exactly makes them patriots? We are still trying to figure it out. We have listened again and again to the speeches made on Saturday…

Donald Trump • vladimir putin

February 4, 2025

Donald Putin and Vladimir Trump

America is a democracy. That is why Donald Trump is not Vladimir Putin, because unlike the Russian president, he will eventually come up against checks and balances in the judiciary,…

January 27, 2025

Proof by Hamas

The plan was to destroy Hamas. That was the objective of the fifteen months of bombardment of Gaza and what is the result? Hamas is not dead. It would no…

January 20, 2025

A power is assembling

No mea culpa whatsoever. There aren't many people left who aren't calling on Europe day and night to assert itself as quickly as possible in the face of Donald Trump,…

January 13, 2025

The alarm bell is ringing for Europe

Europe is not dead. It still has a great deal of catching up to do. It needs to assert itself as a political power as quickly as possible, but Donald…

Georgia

December 16, 2024

“Georgia, they say, is not Belarus”

I was not proud of myself. Students or former ministers, craftsmen or academics, the Georgian demonstrators did not just thank me for coming to them. “Why aren't you doing anything?”,…

December 12, 2024

Putin lost in Syria, he could lose in Ukraine

Let us open our eyes. Tons of euros bought so many votes in Moldova that the country almost fell back into the Russian orbit. In Romania, the Kremlin, with its…

Donald Tusk • Emmanuel Macron • Friedrich Merz

December 6, 2024

The decisive trio

It was the clearest of confessions. When Vladimir Putin said last Thursday, 23 November: Donald Trump is "an intelligent man who already has a lot of experience. I think he…

European Union • Putin • Russia

November 26, 2024

Europe, from the Atlantic to the Pacific

The meeting was intended to be discreet, and it was. Coming from the Russian and Central European diaspora, from what was once the Soviet bloc, these journalists did not want…

Donald Trump • European Union • United States

November 20, 2024

The Union is more likely to get stronger than to fall apart

Will we be up to the challenge? It is far from impossible. It is even far from unlikely, but those who say in such large numbers that we will not…

Donald Trump • United States

November 11, 2024

America’s lost “golden age”

The reasons for this are not specifically American, as there are many other Trumps around the world. Nor does it have anything to do with Joe Biden's belated withdrawal, since Donald Trump had already won over half the American people months earlier.

Donald Tusk • European Parliament • European Union

November 4, 2024

Harris or Trump, it is time for Europe

“If it’s Harris, you’ll see”, people will have said a lot by Tuesday, “the Europeans will be so relieved to have escaped Trump that they’ll start believing in the American umbrella again, and won’t talk about developing a common Defense any more”. “If it’s Trump, you’ll see”, people will have said everywhere, “many will try […]

Georgia • Moldova • Putin

October 28, 2024

Putin-Europe: 2-0

There are worse things than Russian interference. If the ‘yes’ to the European Union only won by such a narrow margin in Moldova, it was not just because huge numbers of votes were bought by Mr Putin's services, and because they flooded the electorate with false news at the same time. In both Georgia and Moldova, this interference was highly…

China • Taiwan • Xi Jinping

October 22, 2024

Mr Xi’s 5 mistakes

For twenty-four hours on Monday 14 October, Communist China surrounded Taiwan. One hundred and fifty-three aircraft and 36 ships cut the country off from the world, but however impressive this show of force was, what was it all about?

Donald Trump • Russia • United States

October 15, 2024

Europe after the 5th of November

In the first scenario, everything is tragically clear. If Donald Trump is elected on 5 November, he will not wait even until he takes office to seal with Vladimir Putin a division of Ukraine, based on the model of the two Germanies or the two Koreas.

Gaza • Joe Biden • Palestine

October 7, 2024

Westerners must relearn what it means to speak out

Emmanuel Macron was not wrong. When Joe Biden called for the fighting in Gaza to stop, coherence would dictate that he no longer supply the weapons that sustain the fighting. Even a child would understand this, but where is the coherence when this same Emmanuel Macron postpones the recognition of Palestine until who knows when, even though France has always…

Hamas • Hezbollah • Nasrallah

October 1, 2024

The victory of force

In as many as three words, he has won. With the death of Hassan Nasrallah, Benjamin Netanyahu has effectively won this war, because after breaking Hamas in one year of bombing Gaza, he has decapitated Hezbollah by crushing its leader under the ruins of his bunker.

European Commission • European Union • Ursula von der Leyen

September 23, 2024

Change of play in Brussels

It is no longer the same Parliament, nor is it the same Union. Everything has changed, mainly because France and Germany have run out of steam, both economically and politically. Of course, this is not the first time that one or the other of Europe's two leading powers has been weakened, but never before had they been weakened so profoundly…

Europe • Germany • Schengen

September 16, 2024

The tip of the iceberg

The ills that now afflict the Union are so profound that it needs to recreate a consensus around clear and inescapable objectives.