Yes, of course, we must arm Ukraine
The word “escalation” is everywhere. One hears and reads it all the time, but it is no longer just associated with the insistence in Moscow on talking about nuclear strikes and a third world war.
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France needs a Democratic Party
The other leg, Mr. President! Put back weight on your left leg urgently because you need a national consensus now. France has of course escaped the worst, the importation of the Hungarian model of “democrature”, the weakening of its economy, the paralysis of the European Union that would have followed and the triumph that the election of Mrs. Le Pen would have offered to the Russian president.
Read MoreUkraine and the challenge of the century
Each time, the interview was deviating. It was no longer the Europeanness of Russia. It was no longer about the fact that no Westerner, no less American than European, has ever wanted to annex any part of Russian territory. It was no longer about the desire of the European Union to be able one day to ensure, with Russia, the stability and prosperity of our common continent, of our “common home”, as Mikhail Gorbachev used to say.
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A Letter to my French compatriots.
It would be an insult to you to remind you of this. An election of Mrs Le Pen would mean that Vladimir Putin would no longer have to fear a strengthening of the economic sanctions against his war, since the most important European decisions are taken unanimously and she would oppose them.
Read MoreUkraine and the European rocket
It is the challenge of a double impossibility that Ukraine is presenting to the European Union. The first problem is that the Union cannot refuse to open its doors to this martyred country, because this would be to deny it solidarity and protection, when it will probably not be able to join the Atlantic Alliance and creating its own prosperity will be its best shield in the long term.
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