We do not know. We no longer know if the division of China into two states separated by a strait and opposing regimes can be overcome without the conflict becoming international. We no longer know because Xi Jinping’s navy is approaching the Taiwanese coast more and more often, his fighter planes violate the island’s airspace up to forty or fifty times a day, and so doing the Chinese Communist Party is constantly asserting that it is at home in Taiwan.
Read MoreWe cannot divide and strengthen ourselves at the same time. Yet, this is what awaits the Union. On the one hand, the eternal battle between the two conceptions of European unity will now be reignited by the ruling of the Polish Constitutional Court on the primacy of national law and the economic sanctions that should follow.
Read MoreSerious, unspeakable and even downright grave, it is something that we cannot stand idly by. When the Polish leaders get a Constitutional Court at their orders to decide that national law takes precedence over European law, they are violating the Treaties that their country has voluntarily signed and are thus undermining all the institutions common to the 27 States of the Union.
Read MoreA year ago, this would have been impossible and even inconceivable. Even six months ago, the European Parliament would not have so easily adopted a report on Euro-American relations stating from the outset that the European Union must “develop its strategic autonomy in terms of defence and economic relations”.
Read MoreThe main thing is not what it seems. The main thing is not which coalition will eventually emerge behind which chancellor, but the scale and the promise of the changes that Sunday’s election results alone herald.
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