Monday’s paper
October 1, 2025
Trump backtracking
America will soon need friends to stand up to China. Donald Trump is learning to understand that Europe, which he detests, is simply indispensable.
America will soon need friends to stand up to China. Donald Trump is learning to understand that Europe, which he detests, is simply indispensable.
Monday’s paper
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 “Russian autocracy”, but from the democracies themselves — their censorship, the annulment of the Romanian elections, and the repression of their opponents — I first thought I was having a…
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 “Russian autocracy”, but from the democracies themselves — their censorship, the annulment of the Romanian elections, and the repression of their opponents — I first thought I was having a bad dream.
Monday’s paper
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 Ukraine.
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 Ukraine.
Monday’s paper
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 European Union would do anything to thwart his plans.
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 European Union would do anything to thwart his plans.
Monday’s paper
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 to the embodiment of the power of money, yes, thank you to this deeply detestable man, because thanks to him, Trump is finally seen for what he is: a grotesque,…
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 to the embodiment of the power of money, yes, thank you to this deeply detestable man, because thanks to him, Trump is finally seen for what he is: a grotesque, incompetent and destructive windbag.
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.
Monday’s paper
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.
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.
Monday’s paper
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.
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.
Monday’s paper
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?
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?
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.
