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 effective, but it does not explain everything.

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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?

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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.

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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 defended the idea of coexistence between two states, Israel and Palestine, and he has himself endorsed this idea?

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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.

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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 and never before at the same time. This has created a political vacuum in Brussels that the President of the Commission is trying to fill by acting as President of the Union.

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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.

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Foreword

Dear Readers,

welcome to this site.

It is not simply the webpage of the Member of the European Parliament, who I have become with great apprehension. Not of the journalist either, who I have been for half a century.

It is a wild ambition: I wanted to give a report on my work as an elected representative in Brussels and in Strasbourg, to continue to follow the evolution of world politics and to try to describe and decipher the stakes and the mysteries behind the scenes of the European institutions.

I wanted to create a multilingual site, to step across the borders that sometimes still separate us.

“Smithing makes the smith”, I hope you will bear with me.

Yours, 

Bernard Guetta

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