Born on 28 January 1951 in Boulogne-BillancourtMarried, father of two childrenEducationCentre de formation des journalistes (CFJ), Paris

Journalist, field of expertise: geopolitics Journalist at Le Monde 1979-1990; correspondent in Vienna, Warsaw, WashingtonMoscow correspondent 1987-1990Radio columnist at France Inter 1991-2018Editor-in-chief of Expansion 1991-1993 and of the Nouvel Observateur 1996-1999Former Editorial writer at L’Express, Le Temps, LibérationWrites in La Repubblica, Gazeta, and l’Espresso Six prizes of journalism, including Albert-Londres Prize 1981Mumm Prize 1989 for the book Géopolitique

Patron Mai, Le Seuil, 1975Eloge de la Tortue, Le Monde, Actualités, 1991Pologne, with Philippe Barbey, Arthaud 1992Géopolitique, L'Olivier, 1995L'Europe fédérale, avec Philippe Labarde, Grasset, Collection : « Pour et Contre », 2002Le Monde est mon métier : Le journaliste, les pouvoirs et la vérité, with Jean Lacouture, Grasset, 2007L'an I des révolutions arabes : décembre 2010-janvier 2012, Belin, 2012Intime Conviction. Comment je suis devenu européen, 2014Dans l'Ivresse de l'histoire, Flammarion, 2017L'Enquête hongroise (puis polonaise, italienne et autrichienne), Flammarion, 2019

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Westerners must relearn what it means to speak out

07-10-2024

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?

The victory of force

01-10-2024

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.

Change of play in Brussels

23-09-2024

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.