Poland’s second return to Europe
This is definitely the most mistaken of ideas. “The two Europes”, they say quite naturally,...
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Category: VIEWS
A message from the Kremlin
Vladimir Putin has plunged into history to bring up a message to the world’s democracies. The pre-war period, the wartime and the international order that the winners had built after the war demonstrate that the Allies of those times must close their ranks again today, because their condominium is indispensable to the international stability which is their “duty” is to defend, he argued in a paper on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nazi defeat.
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The New Atlantic Alliance
There is an urgent need to forge an alliance again. We need to do so because our ties are too old, too deep and too necessary for both the United States and for Europe to let them fray even more. It is necessary, because there are so many fires smouldering around the world that they force us to act together lest they spread everywhere.
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Forty years later
This is the second blow to the conservative revolution and this will probably be a fatal one. Just as strongly as the pandemic had challenged the economic credo of the four decades opened by Margaret Thatcher, the international outrage over the murder of George Floyd has now disrupted the political alliance on which the last forty years were based.
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The Brussels consensus
And now what? Now that France, Germany, the European Commission and so many of the Union’s capitals have embraced the principles of joint borrowing and the pooling of investments to deal with this crisis, now that all that remains is to negotiate a compromise with the States that are most committed to balanced budgets in order to achieve unanimity and take action, what is the next step?
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