Born on 28 January 1951 in Boulogne-BillancourtMarried, father of two childrenEducationCentre de formation des journalistes (CFJ), Paris

Journalist, field of expertise: geopolitics Journalist at Le Monde 1979-1990; correspondent in Vienna, Warsaw, WashingtonMoscow correspondent 1987-1990Radio columnist at France Inter 1991-2018Editor-in-chief of Expansion 1991-1993 and of the Nouvel Observateur 1996-1999Former Editorial writer at L’Express, Le Temps, LibérationWrites in La Repubblica, Gazeta, and l’Espresso Six prizes of journalism, including Albert-Londres Prize 1981Mumm Prize 1989 for the book Géopolitique

Patron Mai, Le Seuil, 1975Eloge de la Tortue, Le Monde, Actualités, 1991Pologne, with Philippe Barbey, Arthaud 1992Géopolitique, L'Olivier, 1995L'Europe fédérale, avec Philippe Labarde, Grasset, Collection : « Pour et Contre », 2002Le Monde est mon métier : Le journaliste, les pouvoirs et la vérité, with Jean Lacouture, Grasset, 2007L'an I des révolutions arabes : décembre 2010-janvier 2012, Belin, 2012Intime Conviction. Comment je suis devenu européen, 2014Dans l'Ivresse de l'histoire, Flammarion, 2017L'Enquête hongroise (puis polonaise, italienne et autrichienne), Flammarion, 2019

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Remake the Alliance

02-12-2019

It will not be easy. Between Emmanuel Macron and his “braindead” of an organisation whose 70th birthday we are celebrating; Recep Erdogan, who has just replied that it’s the pot calling the kettle black and it is Mr Macron who is braindead; Donald Trump, who has nothing to do with this Alliance which he judges to be too expensive; and the countries leaving the Soviet bloc who still want to believe in the American defensive umbrella, because Russia is doing all it can to hassle them: this NATO summit will not be a walk in the rose garden.

Macron’s bomb

26-11-2019

There is no one else but him, and it is exactly for this reason that he exasperates so many people in France as well in the rest of Europe. There is no one else but Emmanuel Macron, because the French left and the right are in not such a great shape, because Mrs Merkel is soon to retire, because Great Britain is leaving, because the German economy is running out of steam and because crises are creeping up in Madrid as well as in Rome.

“Laïcité” in the Middle East

18-11-2019

Which ones to place our bets on today? No one knows any more. It is impossible to tell because the situation in the Middle East has changed again so rapidly that it forbids every prognosis on the victory of one or the other, of States or the ethno-religious communities they are and will remain composed of, even after so many years of uncertainty and violence.

Put the emperor’s clothes back on

11-11-2019

Was he right, the child in Andersen’s tale? Was he right, Emmanuel Macron, to reveal that the emperor was naked, declaring, in the columns of the Economist, the “brain death” of NATO, before adding that the rule of putting a ceiling on public deficit of 3 percent of the GDP also belonged to another century?

It was communism that killed communism

07-11-2019

“So what?” I retorted to her, both stupidly and rightly, because… I‘m going to tell you. I had asked for the call the evening before. I asked for 7am, Paris time, the time when the typists arrived to the Monde. My pal with the husky voice had picked up the phone. “Come on, hurry up”, I told her. “I’ve got ten pages for you”. Silence, embarrassed silence on the other end of the line. “Bernard… I would be surprised if they took them. – Why wouldn’t they? – You don’t know? – What don’t I know? – The wall fell last night”.

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Remake the Alliance

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“Laïcité” in the Middle East

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It was communism that killed communism

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