This time, enough is f… enough
For 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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The triangle of fire
It was true before. One would have to be blind not to see it, but who could deny today that the three great powers dominating the beginning of this century are the European Union, the United States and China?
Read MoreLet’s pool our future, not our past
I suppose I shouldn’t do this. I should rather applaud what has been done than lament that so much remains to be done, show the light at the end of the tunnel and not play Cassandra, but there is no worse crime in politics than a lie, even by way of omission.
Read MoreAnswer to a friend who does not believe in the Union
It’s a digital debate. My friend Jean-Marcel Bouguereau, the journalist, makes our mutual friend, Stéphane Rozès, an excellent French political scientist and pollster read my paper from last week on Facebook. Stéphane reacts immediately. To my irony about the efficiency lent to the Chinese regime, about the flood of criticism poured on the European Union and about the so paradoxical denunciation by the Europhobes of the German refusal of European bonds, he replies, straight to the point, with the following text which he has authorised me to reproduce.
Read MoreI must have missed an episode
We are told that efficiency is on the Chinese side. This is being whispered and said more and more and, yes, it is absolutely true, because we have rarely seen a political power managing, in no time, to provoke a pandemic, to place half of humankind in confinement and, no doubt, soon to plunge the world economy into a crisis whose magnitude could be absolutely spectacular.
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