This is piracy. When the Belarusian president organizes the hijacking of an international flight passing through is airspace with the sole purpose of imprisoning a journalist who was on board, this is pure and simple state piracy.
Read MoreRemember what we were hearing just a few weeks ago. Ever since the United Arab Emirates and then Bahrain had signed peace treaties with Israel and Saudi Arabia had tacitly approved them, we had heard everywhere, even between the lines, that there was no longer a Palestinian problem, that they had lost and would no longer have any weight on the international scene.
Read MoreThe question is far from being illegitimate. Why, many of our fellow citizens ask, should we replace tried and tested national democracies with an unfinished entity whose borders are shifting and whose institutions are so poorly known?
Read MoreAnd yet there it is, taking shape. Worse than being non-existent, it was said to be impossible, given the different and often contradictory histories, cultural connivances and world perceptions of the various states of the Union. But if we look at it more closely, and pay attention not so much to the weight of the past but rather to the sum of its evolutions, we can see a European foreign policy emerging from its limbo.
Read MoreObviously, not everything will be changed in a few months. Even those who would like it, cannot hope that this Conference on the Future of Europe, which is finally being held, will immediately lead to a Europe of Defence or, even less so, to a United States of Europe. By splitting the objectives between long-term projects and immediate reforms we could, however enable the Union to take essential and irreversible steps forward.
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