What does he want? What is his goal? Why did Vladimir Putin amass some hundred thousand of his soldiers along the Ukrainian border and why did he at the same time encourage the Belarussian president to organise the arrival of migrants to Minsk, migrants who had been lured by the possibility of entering the European Union via the Polish border?
Read MoreNothing would prevent us from doing the reverse this time. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, we could for once organise a peace conference before and not after the war, before the massacres and war crimes have multiplied and not after they have claimed hundreds of thousands of new victims in addition to those of the 1990s, because finally…
Read MoreI met him by chance at the theatre during the interval, and without saying hello, he said to me: “I’m fed up with your Europe!” Paul and I have known each other since high school. He has never been one for nuance, but here he was really ready to punch the Member of the European Parliament that I am, because “if you are not even able to go and save these people at the Polish border, what are you good for?
Read MoreI must admit it, however ironically, however painfully. I must acknowledge that the Poles really cannot open their border to all those Middle Eastern refugees that the Belarusian dictatorship is sending to Minsk with the promise of an easy route to the European Union.
Read MoreIt is back on, really back on. Europe of the nations versus an “ever closer Union”, as the treaties put it, the debate keeps rising, becoming more and more fierce, but the big problem is that the sovereignists still believe they are in the 20th century.
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