Monday’s paper
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 risk, it is a certainty. But you no longer have a choice.
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 risk, it is a certainty. But you no longer have a choice.
You will win because you are utopians
There is only one solution, the one which is deemed foolish, unrealistic, utopian, impossible to implement and already dead: the two-state solution.
There is only one solution, the one which is deemed foolish, unrealistic, utopian, impossible to implement and already dead: the two-state solution.
Monday’s paper
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…
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 and same Western world dominated by the United States.
Monday’s paper
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?
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?
Monday’s paper
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 […]
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 […]
Monday’s paper
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.
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.
Monday’s paper
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 […]
“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 […]
Monday’s paper
September 23, 2024
Change of play in Brussels
It is no longer the same Parliament, nor is it the same Union. Everything has changed, mainly because France and Germany have run out of steam, both economically and politically. Of course, this is not the first time that one or the other of Europe's two leading powers has been weakened, but never before had they been weakened so profoundly…
It is no longer the same Parliament, nor is it the same Union. Everything has changed, mainly because France and Germany have run out of steam, both economically and politically. Of course, this is not the first time that one or the other of Europe’s two leading powers has been weakened, but never before had they been weakened so profoundly and never before at the same time. This has created a political vacuum in Brussels that the President of the Commission is trying to fill by acting as President of the Union.
