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Marine Le Pen • Trump

April 7, 2025

The club of thieves and liars

It is unprecedented. Never before have we seen thieves, real thieves convicted of organized theft, call for a protest demonstration against the judgment that condemned them. We see thugs parading…

demonstration • Erdoğan • İmamoğlu • Istanbul • liberty • Turkey

March 31, 2025

The faces of Istanbul

Who said that democracy has fallen out of favour? Who said that people now aspire to authoritarianism? Who said such nonsense, once again disproved in Istanbul by the hundreds of…

defence • Putin • Trump • United States

March 24, 2025

In spite of Trump and Putin: The reasons for hope

Sit down and cry? Cry with rage and fear at the speed with which Donald Trump and his men are attacking the American checks and balances and muzzling Republican elected…

defence • European Union • Trump • United States

March 17, 2025

The birth of a new West

There will be no business as usual, no return to the status quo ante, no resurrection of the post-war order. Even if we assume – which remains to be proven…

European Union • Gaza • Trump • Ukraine • United States

March 10, 2025

Five failures, not a single success

Donald Trump never stops singing his own praises. He probably really does believe he is truly brilliant, but apart from having caused global chaos in just seven weeks, what has…

March 3, 2025

Donald Trump’s mistake

What if we turned the question around? What if, for a moment, we stopped asking ourselves ‘what can Europe do?’ and instead asked what Trump can do after he attacked…

February 20, 2025

What determines the Union’s future more? Its frailties or its dynamic for self-assertion ?

He had not wanted it. He would not have imagined it, but thanks to Donald Trump, thanks to the Munich tirades of his vice-president and thanks to the astonishing blindness…

February 9, 2025

These ‘Patriots for Europe’, hardly patriots, hardly European

They call themselves ‘patriots’, but what exactly makes them patriots? We are still trying to figure it out. We have listened again and again to the speeches made on Saturday…

Putin • Trump

February 4, 2025

Donald Putin and Vladimir Trump

America is a democracy. That is why Donald Trump is not Vladimir Putin, because unlike the Russian president, he will eventually come up against checks and balances in the judiciary,…

January 27, 2025

Proof by Hamas

The plan was to destroy Hamas. That was the objective of the fifteen months of bombardment of Gaza and what is the result? Hamas is not dead. It would no…

January 20, 2025

A power is assembling

No mea culpa whatsoever. There aren't many people left who aren't calling on Europe day and night to assert itself as quickly as possible in the face of Donald Trump,…

January 13, 2025

The alarm bell is ringing for Europe

Europe is not dead. It still has a great deal of catching up to do. It needs to assert itself as a political power as quickly as possible, but Donald…

Georgia

December 16, 2024

“Georgia, they say, is not Belarus”

I was not proud of myself. Students or former ministers, craftsmen or academics, the Georgian demonstrators did not just thank me for coming to them. “Why aren't you doing anything?”,…

December 12, 2024

Putin lost in Syria, he could lose in Ukraine

Let us open our eyes. Tons of euros bought so many votes in Moldova that the country almost fell back into the Russian orbit. In Romania, the Kremlin, with its…

Donald Tusk • Friedrich Merz • Macron

December 6, 2024

The decisive trio

It was the clearest of confessions. When Vladimir Putin said last Thursday, 23 November: Donald Trump is "an intelligent man who already has a lot of experience. I think he will find a solution", this sycophancy was obviously a cry for help.

European Union • Putin • Russia

November 26, 2024

Europe, from the Atlantic to the Pacific

The meeting was intended to be discreet, and it was. Coming from the Russian and Central European diaspora, from what was once the Soviet bloc, these journalists did not want to attract the attention of the press or the intelligence services, as they had to discuss complex issues in confidence. How can we fight against […]

European Union • Trump • United States

November 20, 2024

The Union is more likely to get stronger than to fall apart

Will we be up to the challenge? It is far from impossible. It is even far from unlikely, but those who say in such large numbers that we will not be able to cope with Donald Trump and that Europe will soon crumble under his blows are unfortunately not short of arguments.

Trump • United States

November 11, 2024

America’s lost “golden age”

The reasons for this are not specifically American, as there are many other Trumps around the world. Nor does it have anything to do with Joe Biden's belated withdrawal, since Donald Trump had already won over half the American people months earlier.

Donald Tusk • European Parliament • European Union

November 4, 2024

Harris or Trump, it is time for Europe

“If it’s Harris, you’ll see”, people will have said a lot by Tuesday, “the Europeans will be so relieved to have escaped Trump that they’ll start believing in the American umbrella again, and won’t talk about developing a common Defense any more”. “If it’s Trump, you’ll see”, people will have said everywhere, “many will try […]

Georgia • Moldova • Putin

October 28, 2024

Putin-Europe: 2-0

There are worse things than Russian interference. If the ‘yes’ to the European Union only won by such a narrow margin in Moldova, it was not just because huge numbers of votes were bought by Mr Putin's services, and because they flooded the electorate with false news at the same time. In both Georgia and Moldova, this interference was highly…

China • Taiwan • Xi Jinping

October 22, 2024

Mr Xi’s 5 mistakes

For twenty-four hours on Monday 14 October, Communist China surrounded Taiwan. One hundred and fifty-three aircraft and 36 ships cut the country off from the world, but however impressive this show of force was, what was it all about?

Russia • Trump • United States

October 15, 2024

Europe after the 5th of November

In the first scenario, everything is tragically clear. If Donald Trump is elected on 5 November, he will not wait even until he takes office to seal with Vladimir Putin a division of Ukraine, based on the model of the two Germanies or the two Koreas.

Gaza • Joe Biden • Palestine

October 7, 2024

Westerners must relearn what it means to speak out

Emmanuel Macron was not wrong. When Joe Biden called for the fighting in Gaza to stop, coherence would dictate that he no longer supply the weapons that sustain the fighting. Even a child would understand this, but where is the coherence when this same Emmanuel Macron postpones the recognition of Palestine until who knows when, even though France has always…