These nationalist parties have finally clarified four things at once. By co-signing their declaration of war on the deepening of the European unity on Friday, they first killed the idea of an East-West divide within the Union.
Read MoreShe was forgetting only one thing. Last Thursday, after the European Council rejected her idea of a summit between the 27 and Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel was not wrong to point out that no one had reproached Joe Biden for his tête-à-tête with the Russian president. By this she meant that Europeans had no reason to deny themselves what the Americans were doing, but the whole problem was that the United States was a state and the European Union was not.
Read MoreIn the end, France did not single itself out. The far right did not come out on top in the first round of the regional elections. The Rassemblement National will have a hard time winning the only French region it still has a chance of taking next Sunday, and it so happens that France has just confirmed an increasingly clear international trend.
Read MoreIt looked like a wedding, maybe a cousin party, I don’t know, but in any case a family celebration. Apart from Cousin Boris, who looked a bit uneasy everyone seemed to be in such good spirits that this Western reunion sent out three important messages.
Read MoreThis is not enough. It is obviously not enough because the minimum 15% tax that the seven richest democracies have decided to impose on multinationals is still ridiculously low compared to what SMEs, employees and independent professions pay in most countries of the world.
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