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The missile war initiated by Iran against Israel on April 13 resumed with even greater intensity on the night of October 2, with potentially devastating consequences for both countries, the Middle East region, and possibly the entire world. The immediate...
There was a time, and I can testify to it, when the President of the European Commission was selected during a tête-à-tête between the French President and the German Chancellor, in a modest office at the French Representation in Brussels. That time is...
As the suspense of the U.S. elections draws to a close, Europe’s challenges are just beginning. Regardless of who occupies the White House, the question remains: how can Europe halt its alarming drift from the U.S.? How can it assert influence in world...
As a keen observer of international relations, Pierre Lellouche delves into the complexities of the war in Ukraine and its global impact in his book Engrenages – The War in Ukraine and the Shifting World Order. He critiques what he calls a reactionary...
“I will stop the wars.” In his victory speech in Palm Beach, President-elect Donald Trump summarized his foreign policy vision in just a few words: protect America and avoid wars. Yet, the new administration immediately faces three critical fronts: Ukraine,...
Last week in Pakistan, renewed violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims in the country’s northwest claimed 82 lives and injured 156 others, bringing the death toll in this region bordering Afghanistan to 160 since summer. Meanwhile, in Paris, the far-left...
After spreading to the Middle East, where the same Iranian, Russian, and Chinese actors align against the United States behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Ukraine has now extended to the Far East. This time, it’s through North Korea,...
Mardi dernier à La Haye, une discrète réunion du Conseil de l’OIAC (Organisation pour l’interdiction des armes chimiques) s’est tenue à l’initiative de l’Espagnol Fernando Arias, le président en exercice de l’Organisation. Quelques jours plus tôt, le...
Donald Trump does not like wars and was elected on the promise to “end them.” His vice president, J.D. Vance, goes even further, advocating for an America that definitively abandons its role as the world’s policeman to focus on domestic issues. Yet, as...
Invading Panama or Greenland? Annexing Canada? “A joke! Ramblings of a man with no limits to his claims. He makes things up just to stay at the center of global attention. He’s thrilled to be at the top of the world.” These reactions, gathered from some...
TRUMP, ALGERIA, AND US… François Fillon, briefly emerging from his silence, found the right words to describe Donald Trump's election and the reactions it triggered in France: "Donald Trump," he said, "won because Americans could no longer tolerate uncontrolled...
Unlike Emmanuel Macron, who was elected on the promise of a "Revolution"—the title of his campaign book published in November 2016, whose unfathomable emptiness the French have been able to savor for the past nine years—Donald Trump never uttered the...
"A great television moment," predicted Donald Trump, an expert in the field, after his astonishing reception of his Ukrainian counterpart, Zelensky, in the Oval Office on Friday, February 28, 2025. It was more than that: it was a historic moment, this...
I have repeatedly stated—long before it even began—that the war in Ukraine could have been avoided. That it could even have been stopped as early as April 2022. That instead of preparing for the failed "great offensive" of June 2023, Ukraine and its allies...
I- La quête Pour comprendre le contenu et la portée de l’accord dit JCPOA de 2015, il est indispensable de le replacer dans l’histoire du programme nucléaire iranien, qui est bien plus ancien. Celui-ci a commencé dès 1964 avec l’implantation d’un réacteur...
"End this horrible war in 24 hours": Donald Trump’s promise seems more illusory than ever in the wake of the long telephone conversation between the Russian and American Presidents on March 19. Trump, the self-proclaimed and sole mediator of the Ukrainian...
On his first official visit to Europe since taking office, President Donald Trump spent just fourteen hours in Rome, attending Pope Francis’s funeral. After a few quick handshakes with nearby dignitaries, he rushed back to his plane, eager—according to...
Amidst an interminable negotiation over Ukraine, another for the release of an American-Israeli hostage held by Hamas, a third concerning Iran's nuclear programme, a fourth with Yemen's Houthis to halt their attacks on American ships (but not others),...
Entrée dans sa quatrième année, la guerre d’Ukraine se trouve tragiquement enlisée dans une triple impasse. Militaire d’abord : malgré un million de tués et de mutilés dans les deux camps, la guerre ne laisse entrevoir aucune perspective de victoire décisive,...
Now entering its fourth year, the war in Ukraine is tragically mired in a triple impasse. First, the military one: despite a million killed or maimed on both sides, the war shows no sign of delivering a decisive victory for either. The Ukrainian army,...
Donald Trump n’apprécie guère le surnom de « taco » que vient de lui attribuer la presse anglo-saxonne , à commencer par le très influent Financial Times. Ce n’est pas tant que le président américain ait une aversion pour la cuisine mexicaine — et sa...
Donald Trump does not appreciate the nickname "taco" recently bestowed upon him by the English-language press, beginning notably with the influential Financial Times. It's not that the American president harbors any particular aversion to Mexican cuisine—and...
The idea had been debated in Israel for decades—at least thirty years: to destroy all of Iran’s nuclear facilities through airstrikes. Either carried out by Israel alone or with U.S. support. For a country whose population is mostly concentrated in a...
June is lovely on the French Riviera. And on this Pentecost weekend—before a particularly packed travel schedule in the following weeks, including the G7 in Canada, a trip to Greenland, and a UN summit in New York on Palestine—Emmanuel Macron couldn’t...
Narcisse, roi du monde : ou les ambitions contrariées d’Emmanuel Macron Il fait beau sur la Côte d’Azur en juin. Et, en ce week-end de la Pentecôte, avant une série de déplacements particulièrement denses prévus les semaines suivantes — dont le G7 au...