There are five reasons to believe in it. True, panic can still prevail. It could undo everything, even the Union itself, but there are five reasons to believe that the European unity will emerge strengthened from this crisis and finally moves on to political union, its third act after the common market and the single currency.
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Two sentences say it all. One by Angela Merkel, the other by Benjamin Netanyahu, two sentences pronounced last week at the German and Israeli parliaments, which express in two slow but profound evolvements that could well be reshaping the world.
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It’s not just on the stock market that you have to buy when prices are down. It is also necessary to do so in politics. For the European Union, the time to open up new prospects to Russia is now, when Russia’s difficulties are multiplying and its president’s room for manoeuvre is shrinking.
Read MoreEverything around us will be different. For us Europeans, all will change on the international scene because, as the pandemic is changing the situation or speeding up old trends, nothing is the same anymore in Beijing, Washington and Moscow.
Read MoreFor God’s sake, when will we see it? When will we stop parroting that the Union is disintegrating and dying, even though it may be embarking on a new and decisive stage in its history?
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