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Putin • Russia • Ukraine

September 28, 2026

Putin must be made to realise the cost of escalation

We should no longer hesitate to reveal what we know about Vladimir Putin’s corruption.

associate member • Canada • European Union • Mark Carney

September 21, 2026

No, Mr Trump, this is not laughable. It is an alliance – and it is against you

Canada is the most European of the Americas. Canada is Europe in America, but if its Prime Minister accepted, last Thursday, the status of ‘associate member’ of the Union offered…

confederation • European Union • federation

September 14, 2026

Between caution and revolution

The Union needs an incarnation. It needs an executive capable of making decisions as swiftly as the Chinese, Russian or American presidents. It needs to be able to act as…

AfD • Marine Le Pen • Trump

September 9, 2026

The resistible rise of Mrs Le Pen

The left has lost its post-war cultural dominance everywhere. The world is leaning to the right, but, like the British two years ago, the Swedes may soon remind us that…

Putin • Russia • Trump • Ukraine

August 31, 2026

Putin’s all-or-nothing gamble

We should be concerned about this, for three reasons. Before winter sets in, Vladimir Putin could both open a second front in Ukraine and challenge the West at the EU’s…

Europe • France • presidential election

July 8, 2026

Time is running out in Paris

The centrists, the Greens, the social democrats, and the right-wing parties are all so effectively splitting the democratic vote in their bid to win it over that the first round…

European Union • Putin • Russia • Ukraine

June 22, 2026

When and how to restart talks with the Kremlin

With the European Union and the United Kingdom on one side, and the Russian Federation on the other, it is no longer the two Cold War blocs that stand face…

Israel • Palestine • Two-State Solution

June 15, 2026

Palestine, Israel and France

Peace necessarily requires mutual recognition of Palestine and Israel – because otherwise what else?

Putin • Russia • Ukraine

June 8, 2026

The post-Putin era

When this long and grim chapter of history ends for this dictator, the entire Putinist ideology will crumble, because the exhaustion of this system has now erased its initial triumph.

Africa • China • European Union

May 31, 2026

Europe’s future is Africa, Africa’s future is Europe

Either we allow Chinese industry to gain such a foothold in Africa that we will soon no longer have the means to counter it, not even in Europe, or we…

European Union • Putin • Russia • Trump • Ukraine

May 25, 2026

Putin must deal with Europe now, not with America

The Kremlin is now quite openly declaring itself ready for talks with Europe, as Donald Trump is no longer in a position to force a surrender on Kyiv, whilst the…

China • European Union • Russia • Trump • United States

May 18, 2026

One century, four powers

In the aftermath of the First World War, we knew that the United States would dominate the 20th century because it had just asserted its pre-eminence over the two superpowers…

democracy • election • Europe • Great Britain

May 11, 2026

Democrats must now stand as one single united front against the far right

Against the far right, the time for cordons sanitaires is over. The time has come for full unity among democrats, and whoever faces the Rassemblement Naitonal in the second round…

European Union • Iran • Russia • Trump • Ukraine • United States

May 6, 2026

The Five Dangers of an Iranian Defeat

As incongruous as it may seem, let’s ask ourselves the question. Whose defeat should we hope for? That of the Iranian regime or that of Donald Trump?

enlargement • European Union • Ukraine • war • Zelensky

April 28, 2026

Ukraine’s true place

Sorry, Mr Zelensky, but the answer is no. We are sorry to have to tell you this, but no, Mr President, Ukraine cannot become a full member of the Union overnight.

Europe • Hormuz • Iran • oil • summit

April 20, 2026

Europe and the End of the American World

It is a moment that history will remember. Standing behind carefully aligned microphones, the German Chancellor, the French President and the heads of the Italian and British governments explained, last Friday, the purpose of their ‘initiative’ regarding the Strait of Hormuz, which had brought together some fifty countries in Paris.

democracy • Hungary • Trump • Viktor Orbán

April 13, 2026

Donald Trump’s defeat in Hungary

The relief is immense, but there is still a great deal of work to be done. Viktor Orbán’s defeat is cause for celebration, as Hungary can now emerge from a semi-dictatorship that was as much admired by Vladimir Putin as it was applauded by Donald Trump and the European far right, who had held it […]

Iran • Japan • Korea • Trump • United States • war

April 6, 2026

The End of the American World

These are countries where, until very recently, it would have been unthinkable to voice even the slightest criticism of the United States. Entirely dependent on American protection against North Korea and China, Japan and South Korea shared the same relationship of absolute deference toward Washington that Germany and Poland did not long ago. But that […]

Iran • Middle East • Trump • United States

March 29, 2026

Trump has no cards left to play

In Iran, Donald Trump is left with nothing but bad options.

European Union • NATO • Trump • United States

March 23, 2026

While you destroy, sir, we build

We won't, either. We will not forget, Mr. Trump, the way you called us “cowards” and threatened to hold it against us that we refused to go to war by your side. We will not forget it because the fury and rudeness to which you gave in there speak all too clearly of what we are in your eyes. To…

Iran • Middle East • peace • Trump • United States • war

March 17, 2026

What Iran needs is not more soldiers, but more political wisdom

Before oil prices hit new highs and the polls predict he will lose both Houses in the November elections, Donald Trump may still want to salvage what he can. He may declare victory and withdraw his troops, but what would happen afterwards in the Middle East?

Défense européenne • France • Iran • United States

March 10, 2026

Iran, Europe and the intellectual laziness

Not only are Europeans far from being passive, but, by coincidence, it was on the third day of this war that Emmanuel Macron solemnly proposed extending French nuclear deterrence to those EU countries that wished it.

Iran • Khamenei • Middle East • Trump • United States • war

March 2, 2026

The era of international law has ended in the sky above Iran

Why lament the fact that the Islamist dictator fell at the hands of America, even Trump's America? Because the law of the strongest is now promoted by both the White House and the Kremlin.