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The second death of Mrs. Thatcher

It happened last Friday. Remember this date, the 12th of March 2021, because Joe Biden’s speech that day will be remembered as the speech of the change of economic model, the resurrection of Keynes and the second death of Margaret Thatcher – the “paradigm shift” as the American president put it.

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Do you speak Christian?

His words were a thousand antidotes. It is “always wrong to hate, kill or go to war in the name of God,” the pope said. Hope, he added, will never be “silenced by the blood spilled by those who have perverted the name of God.” “Fraternity, he also said, is more durable than fratricide, hope stronger than hatred, peace more powerful than war.”

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The Biden doctrine

What if it is not at all incoherent? What if, on the contrary, the way in which the United States has just reaffirmed its long-standing ties with the Saudi Kingdom while at the same time naming the Crown Prince as the instigator of Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination set a precedent for a new doctrine?

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The Italian-French front Europe needs

Mario Macron or Emmanuel Draghi, you call them as you wish, they can call themselves as they wish, but these two must urgently stand together and adopt a common programme because, now that it has been won, the battle begins.

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Sanction the Kremlin, not Russia

Sanctions, yes, of course. The EU could not possibly fail to impose them when it debates its Russian policy next week, because Vladimir Putin has not simply put back in prison the man whom his services had failed to poison. He also slapped the 27 in the face in the person of Josep Borrell, the head of their diplomacy, who had come to Moscow on a good offices mission.

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Foreword

Dear Readers,

welcome to this site.

It is not simply the webpage of the Member of the European Parliament, who I have become with great apprehension. Not of the journalist either, who I have been for half a century.

It is a wild ambition: I wanted to give a report on my work as an elected representative in Brussels and in Strasbourg, to continue to follow the evolution of world politics and to try to describe and decipher the stakes and the mysteries behind the scenes of the European institutions.

I wanted to create a multilingual site, to step across the borders that sometimes still separate us.

“Smithing makes the smith”, I hope you will bear with me.

Yours, 

Bernard Guetta

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