500 million Europeans should be able to defend their interests. We cannot always rely on 350 million Americans.
Media mentions – ECFR Paris
The creation of the NATO-Ukraine Council is more than a bureaucratic consolation, as it will prepare Ukraine for membership and bring it considerably closer to NATO structures
The investment effort required by climate action, whether for France or for the EU, is roughly equivalent to 2% of annual GDP
Jean Pisany-Ferry assesses the cost for France and the EU to meet their climate commitments
For a long time, this awareness of a shared history fuelled the idea that there was a Russian exception and that Moscow had the right to have a zone of influence
Plus que des garanties de sécurité per se, il s’agit d’un soutien à long terme. Le fait que sept économies majeures de la planète s’unissent pour l’Ukraine, c’est sécurisant.
No foreign policy is made on the basis of values alone. This is not the first time there has been a tension between interests and values.
[Sweden and Finland] make NATO much more geographically coherent. The Baltic Sea becomes a NATO lake, which is generally useful, also because of the Arctic’s increased importance.
[To Ukraine], the EU seems more generous and accessible than NATO, with a clearer procedure. And, for the time being, it is helping to ward off the idea of a war that will never end.
France was at the balance point of the Vilnius summit, not strictly adhering to the very open position of the Baltic states and the Poles. Strategically and tactically, it was well played.
this visit by the Palestinian President is intended to show that the Palestinian Authority is in control of Jenin