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European Union • Russia • Trump • Ukraine • United States

September 23, 2025

I have never heard Americans place their hopes in Europe before

When a senior official in the new American diplomatic service explained to me in his Washington office that the danger to European democracies came not from what I had called…

Israel • Israel • Macron • Netanyahou • Palestine • Two-State Solution

September 14, 2025

To defend Palestine is to defend Israel

Like half of Israelis and a large proportion of Jews in Europe and America, Emmanuel Macron believes that only by doing justice to the Palestinians can Israel ensure its long-term…

European Union • France

September 8, 2025

French people, one more effort!

Dear French people, no, not only are France and the rest of Europe not dead yet, but on the contrary: our continent is regaining its political vitality.

common European defence • European Union • Russia • Trump • Ukraine • United States

August 29, 2025

A new power, Europe, has won its first battle against Donald Trump

On 18 August in Washington, Donald Trump had to deal - at least for the time being - with seven European leaders and accept the idea of security guarantees for…

European Union • Putin • Russia • Trump • United States

July 7, 2025

The Western mote and the Russian beam

Is he making the same mistake he made three years ago? In 2022, Vladimir Putin only invaded Ukraine after he had convinced himself that neither the United States nor the…

Iran • Israel • Israel • Netanyahou • Trump

June 30, 2025

The landscape after the battle

Will this ‘12-day war’ in Iran and Israel have transformed Donald Trump? Will Netanyahu continue to govern with the far right? How have the bombings change the Iranian power dynamics?

democracy • Iran

June 22, 2025

Iran, the country of informed citizens

Iran is the "par excellence" country of politically well-informed, well-trained citizens. To avoid bloody chaos, all that is needed is for the most respected reformers and dissidents to call together…

Iraq • Israel • Middle East • Netanyahou • Palestine • Syria • Two-State Solution

June 16, 2025

Victorious, Netanyahu must now choose

Benjamin Netanyahu now has everything he needs to transform himself into a man of peace, as he will soon have won on all fronts.

Elon Musk • TACO • Trump • United States

June 8, 2025

Merci, Musk

Thank you to this drug-addicted, megalomaniac brute, thank you to the man who thought he could reduce the US deficit by relying on a bunch of prepubescent imbeciles, thank you…

Donald Tusk • Karol Nawrocki • Poland • Rafal Trzaskowski

June 2, 2025

War of the two Polands

This is very bad news. At a time when Europeans need to step up in the face of American withdrawal and Russian revanchism, the victory of the nationalist candidate in…

democracy • European Union • Russia • Trump • United States

May 28, 2025

Address by a Member of the European Parliament to the Republican Members of Congress

I know it is not easy. By distancing yourself from your party, you risk incurring its wrath. With a man as resentful as Donald Trump, it is not just a…

Gaza • genocide • Israel • Palestine

May 19, 2025

Calling things by the wrong name…

Should we or should we not refer to what is happening in Gaza as ‘genocide’ and should we recognise Palestine without further delay? These are the two questions that are…

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 reasons for wanting to reach an agreement with Putin run extremely deep.

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 failures that all we have to do is wait until November 2026 and the mid-term elections to wake up from this nightmare.

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 after their release from prison. We also see them celebrating the failure of the justice system to prove their guilt, but this Sunday meeting of the National Rally, no, that…

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 thousands of demonstrators who, on Saturday, demanded the release of their mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was thrown in prison because he could beat Recep Erdoğan in the next presidential election?

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 officials by threatening to oppose candidates of their own in the next primaries?

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 – that a normal president, Democrat or Republican, succeeds Donald Trump and closes what would have been nothing more than an astonishing parenthesis, we will not return to a single…

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 he actually achieved?

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 Volodymyr Zelenski in the Oval Office.