Philippines : Hold the line!
Speech at the plenary debate on the Philippines
“Hold the line!” This is the promise that Mr. Duterte’s opponents courageously and nobly made to themselves.
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Speech at the plenary debate on the Philippines
“Hold the line!” This is the promise that Mr. Duterte’s opponents courageously and nobly made to themselves.
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Plenary intervention in the debate on Mr. Navalny’s poisoning
No, we don’t know who ordered this crime but we do know that, one after the other, the opponents are dying under Mr. Putin.
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Plenary session intervention on Belarus
You still have a choice, Mr. Putin, but do it right! You can of course extract an agreement from a desperate Lukashenko on a union and thus integrate Belarus into Russia, but then you will only lose this country as you lost Ukraine by annexing Crimea and carrying the war into the Donbass.
01-09-2020
Bernard Guetta, now MEP for the Renew group, covered for Le Monde the events on Solidarność from August 1980 to 1983. As Le Monde’s correspondent in Poland, he witnessed the birth of this great movement on August 31, 1980 and was a privileged witness to its evolution.
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But why? And by what right? Quite simply because I have been both very European and fraternally linked to Poland for almost half a century. It is for these two reasons that I wish Rafal Trzaskowski’s victory, more his victory than the defeat of his opponent.
Read MoreDear 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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Born on 28 January 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt
Married, father of two children
Education
Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ), Paris
Journalist, field of expertise: geopolitics
Journalist at Le Monde 1979-1990; correspondent in Vienna, Warsaw, Washington
Moscow correspondent 1987-1990
Radio columnist at France Inter 1991-2018
Editor-in-chief of Expansion 1991-1993 and of the Nouvel Observateur 1996-1999
Former Editorial writer at L’Express, Le Temps, Libération
Writes in La Repubblica, Gazeta, and l’Espresso
Six prizes of journalism, including
Albert-Londres Prize 1981
Mumm Prize 1989 for the book Géopolitique
Patron Mai, Le Seuil, 1975
Eloge de la Tortue, Le Monde, Actualités, 1991
Pologne, with Philippe Barbey, Arthaud 1992
Géopolitique, L'Olivier, 1995
L'Europe fédérale, avec Philippe Labarde, Grasset, Collection : « Pour et Contre », 2002
Le Monde est mon métier : Le journaliste, les pouvoirs et la vérité, with Jean Lacouture, Grasset, 2007
L'an I des révolutions arabes : décembre 2010-janvier 2012, Belin, 2012
Intime Conviction. Comment je suis devenu européen, 2014
Dans l'Ivresse de l'histoire, Flammarion, 2017
L'Enquête hongroise (puis polonaise, italienne et autrichienne), Flammarion, 2019