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Gaza • Israel • Netanyahou • Palestine • peace

May 12, 2025

It’s Time

I assured them that the European Parliament would press for this. I promised that France would recognise Palestine. I expressed my hope that she would not do so alone. Perhaps…

Druze • Israel • Israel • Kurdistan • Lebanon • Middle East • Middle East • Netanyahou • Syria

May 6, 2025

Middle East: A quest for nation states

One of his reasons is domestic politics. Benjamin Netanyahu came to the aid of the Syrian Druze because the Druze in Israel are patriots, often serving in the security forces,…

Russia • Trump • Ukraine • United States

April 28, 2025

Ukraine: what can we expect from Trump’s change of heart in the Vatican?

We cannot rule out the possibility that the US president will once again give the Ukrainians the military means to impose a compromise that is not a surrender. But his…

Iran • Trump • United States

April 22, 2025

Trump’s two cards

This is the most dangerous illusion of all. In the United States, in Europe and everywhere else, it is easy to believe that Donald Trump has piled up so many…

China • Trump • Xi Jinping

April 17, 2025

How to play the Chinese card: user’s manual

Europe does not have to choose Xi over Trump or Trump over Xi. It must play them against each other.

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 • défense commune • 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 longer be capable of launching another 7 October against Israel, but with whom did Benjamin Netanyahu have to negotiate the release of the hostages? Hamas.

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, but do we hear any of the former Eurosceptics and other sovereigntists expressing regret for having ignored, mocked and rejected the efforts to unite our European countries for so long?

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 Trump's new imperialism is hastening the movement rather than slowing it down, while the invasion of Ukraine had already convinced the 27 of the need for a common defence.

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?”, they asked. “When will you take action against those responsible for electoral fraud, arrests and beatings?" When, but when, they insisted, will this Union they want so much to join…

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 algorithms and its chequebooks, put an unknown pro-Russian candidate in a position to win the first round of a presidential election that the Constitutional Court had to annul. In Georgia,…

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.

Europe • 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 • France • 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.