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A moment of happiness

A moment of happiness

26-09-2019

We have not been able to seize the moment of happiness that existed on both sides of the Wall in 1989 to create a political moment that would have had an emotional base. Maybe we should have, taking advantage of the enthusiasm about the fall of the Berlin Wall, integrate the countries of the Eastern bloc to the European Union the fastest we could – this is what the Visegrád countries were asking for – even going as far as inventing “two circles” of member states, as François Mitterand proposed.

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Do not leave us!

10-09-2019

Open letter to our British friends

Maybe it is already over. I could be very late telling you this, but because I cannot believe it, I will shout it out nevertheless, even if it is just a crazy hope: Don’t do it, don’t leave us!

Don’t go away, because more than our common economic and strategic interests, what it would put in danger are some two thousand years of common history, the depth and the logic of an intimate relationship, twenty centuries of interaction and parallel evolution, without any justification, without a single piece of it.

We have, of course, our differences that create disputes and feed illusions. Some say that if we separate the two sides of the Channel, our inland sea, we will multiply our energies and we will open up a realm of possibilities. Some already see Britain regaining its past glory, while others claim that freed from your chains you will find your way back to the old world of greatness. These illusions carry a lot of weight, but if you leave us now, all of us will wake up from these childish dreams amputated.

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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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