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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“Let us work to ensure that the end of the East-West confrontation is the beginning of a new era of continental democracy and prosperity.”

04-04-2022

Collective op-ed published by Le Monde on the 1st of April

In an address to the Russian people, four presidents of European parliamentary groups, including Manfred Weber (European People’s Party), Stéphane Séjourné (Renew) and Manon Aubry (La Gauche), explain that the only threat to Vladimir Putin is “his fear that Ukraine could become a successful and prosperous democracy”.

Helping Ukrainian refugees: an emergency and a principle

09-03-2022

Speech at the plenary debate on the deterioration of the refugee situation due to the Russian aggression against Ukraine

Madam President, my dear colleagues, there are at least three categories of refugees in this drama.

The first is, of course, the Ukrainian refugees, and we owe it to them to finally organise – and this should already have been done – the distribution between our 27 countries, because Poland and, tomorrow, Romania, cannot bear this burden alone.

An address to the Russian people on the 30-year anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union

08-12-2021

This article was published simultaneously in several European newspapers on 8 December 2021.

Thirty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, thirty-two years after the Central European revolutions, again in such times when your freedoms do not cease to decline, let us dream of the day when your Federation and our Union will find the paths of an understanding and a cooperation which are absolutely necessary for Europe and the world.

“This will be your takeover of the Bastille”, a letter from an MEP to our Russian friends.

01-03-2021

The return of Alexeï Navalny to Russia, his new convictions, the demonstrations that followed and the brutality of their repression, the humiliating way in which Sergueï Lavrov received the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, in Moscow – all of this has given rise to many debates in the European Parliament.

It is by becoming a political and military power that Europe will strengthen its alliance with America

04-01-2021

To save democracy, threatened everywhere, it is no longer time for fratricidal battles but to close ranks between the United States and the European Union, which must finally have a common defense, MEP Bernard Guetta and twenty-six other members of the Renew Group of the European Parliament plead in an article published in Le Monde.

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“Let us work to ensure that the end of the East-West confrontation is the beginning of a new era of continental democracy and prosperity.”

Helping Ukrainian refugees: an emergency and a principle

An address to the Russian people on the 30-year anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union

“This will be your takeover of the Bastille”, a letter from an MEP to our Russian friends.

It is by becoming a political and military power that Europe will strengthen its alliance with America

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