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Beijing • China • IPAC • Trump • Xi Jinping

November 7, 2025

Mr President, you cannot win the battle with China without your allies

Freedom needs an international front of democracies against the alliance of Moscow and Beijing.

December 29, 2024

In memoriam Olivier Todd

He was himself, without labels, himself and no one else. With a French first name and an English last, Olivier Todd had not only been shaped by two cultures whose…

March 29, 2023

Saving the Democracy in Israel

On 27 March I hosted the conference "Saving the Democracy in Israel" in the European Parliament, organised jointly with JCall and Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif de Bruxelles (CCLJ David Susskind).

November 8, 2022

First memorial lecture in the ep – Memorial: a 30-year struggle for memory

The lecture will be given by Irina Scherbakova, Histotian and Member of the Memorial Board Registration online before 25 November https://memorial-france.org/register/

Russia • Ukraine • United States

April 4, 2022

“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.”

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),…

March 23, 2022

Debate on the results of the Hungarian elections – 5 April 2022 – Sciences Po Strasbourg

The Hungarian parliamentary elections are attracting a great deal of interest throughout the European Union and far beyond. The uncertainty surrounding the results makes Hungary an excellent place to observe…

March 9, 2022

Helping Ukrainian refugees: an emergency and a principle

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…

December 8, 2021

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

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…

March 1, 2021

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

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…

January 4, 2021

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

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…

June 24, 2020

Joint letter by 1.080 European parliamentarians against Israeli annexation of West Bank

We, parliamentarians from across Europe committed to a rules-based global order, share serious concerns about President Trump’s plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the imminent prospect of Israeli annexation of…

May 30, 2020

Let’s arm Europe against authoritarian excesses

Europe, the cradle of human rights, freedom and democracy, has always promoted its values far beyond its borders. The European Parliament, the Council of Europe and states all defend these…

May 8, 2020

Hong Kong shows the world what to expect from China in the future

The recent history of Hong Kong, “a story of treachery and deceit”, “throws some light on what you can expect from China in the future if you do nothing”, Alan…

March 17, 2020

Coronavirus: Europe must make history

Collective statement of the Renaissance Delegation in the European Parliament, published on 14 March 2020 in Le JDD On 10 March, we were informed that China was going to allow…

January 16, 2020

Revive the European project

Conference on the Future of Europe : the European Parliament supports one of the key proposals of Renaissance * Members of the European Parliament adopted, by a very large majority, a resolution setting out the objectives and organisation of one of the key proposals of the Renaissance programme to lay new foundations for overhaul the European project.

December 12, 2019

A “Green Deal” for the Union

To meet the challenge of climate change and ensure a fair and inclusive transition, Ursula Von der Leyen presented, on Wednesday 11 December, a Commission action plan to provide the Union with the necessary instruments to make Europe the first carbon neutral continent by 2050.

November 28, 2019

Boosting reforms for the European Union

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many doubts are voiced. Only 38 percent of Germans would consider that reunification was a success; do divisions still exist? Do the economic gaps between the former GDR and the rest of Germany, broadly speaking, reflect the image of a two-speed Europe?

November 4, 2019

Complete renovation

France is causing a scandal. Its partners are pointing it out. They have accused France of irresponsibility, ignorance and Gallo-centrism since its president opposed the opening of accession negotiations with Northern Macedonia and Albania. How can we not see, they say, that Emmanuel Macron has obliged the Union to break its word, and it can no longer be believed? How…

October 23, 2019

The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was an inspiration for the world

The 23rd of October is the day of commemoration of the revolution in 1956 against the Soviet occupation and the communist dictatorship in Hungary. Members of European Parliament from four nations share their thoughts on the importance of this historic event for the whole of Europe.

October 22, 2019

Brexit, European Commission, Turkey: an overview at the beginning of the mandate

Europe and Great Britain have a new agreement: is it (finally) the end of the soap opera? Probably yes, because there is one alternative left from the two possible endings. With a positive vote at the Commons on Saturday, nothing will stop Great Britain from leaving the Union at the set date. If the text is rejected, the British will…

October 10, 2019

Three months, at least

Finally, I had the right to do it. I could not when I had been only a journalist, but as elected representative and politician, I finally had the right to give the advice to these militants that they asked for. “Could we, they asked, do as the Iranians did when they were shouting out their thirst for freedom into the…

October 10, 2019

From one dictatorship to the other

It is an old, a very, very old church in the centre of Prague. The roof has been rebuilt, but the walls are original, and the church breathes of centuries of such a tormented history that it served as the ideal frame for the awarding of the Vaclav Havel prize, given out each year to human rights defenders.

October 1, 2019

Voyage en Europe

par François Reynaert Parution : 23 janvier 2019 Editeur : Fayard Pages : 320 « S’arrêter face au trône de Charlemagne, dans la cathédrale d’Aix-la-Chapelle, pour rêver d’un empire qui fonda l’Europe. Se promener dans les rues de Nuremberg, de Bruges, de Gênes pour raconter la résurrection des villes et l’invention de l’économie, […]