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Tag: Emmanuel Macron
A Road Paved With Irritations: Macron’s Strategic Third Way
Europe’s third-way autonomy would be a mighty thing for the Elysée Palace, especially given French pretensions in steering it.
Macron’s Rhetoric About Europe’s Strategic Autonomy Is A Direct Outcome Of His Trip To China
Macron’s latest words are sincere, especially those symbolically significant ones about intending to resist US pressure over Taiwan.
Macron & Von Der Leyen’s Trip To China Served A Very Pragmatic Purpose
The EU wanted to know what would have to happen for China to cross Brussels’ “red line” by arming Russia, while China wanted to know whether the EU would be willing to cross Beijing’s “red line” in that scenario by sanctioning it in response.
France Blocked For 4 Years
The crisis that France is going through today is not just another episode in an eternally agitated country. It is about a deep crisis of mode which will be solved only with the beginning of a new society. The country will go through several years of blockage, before embarking on a complete transformation, a revolution that will last at least a generation.
Europe Has Enemies Within, Enemies Without
The internal balances of the European Union are significantly transforming as a consequence of the US’ proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. The countries that are close neighbours of the conflict zone — countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic States — have a greater sense of involvement in the […]
Corrupting The European Parliament: Qatar’s Sports Diplomacy
How utterly fitting that it should happen at this time. The Qatar FIFA World Cup is coming to a close, a tournament nakedly bought by a state keen to be a standard bearer, not merely of the Arab world, but the world of shameless sportswashing. Despite being criticised for its […]
Captivity, Inequality, Familiarity
French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to the United States, where Joe Biden as White House head received him for the first time. The French leader’s visit was intended to solve a mountain of problems that have accumulated in bilateral relations and not just there. Washington first offended Paris […]
Macron’s US Visit Tells Europe’s Alienation
The state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the United States stands out as a signpost of the alignments taking place against the backdrop of the historic churning in the world order. The two leaders went to extraordinary lengths to display bonhomie but how far that impressed the two […]
Baguette Listings: Why Food Is Politics
On November 30, the French baguette was formally added to the United Nations’ Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The bureaucrats had finally gotten hold of a glorified bread stick, adding it to their spreadsheet list of cultural items worthy of preservation. A delighted French President took the moment to gloat at […]
Gallic Rebuke: France And The US Rules-Based Order
Gérard Araud was not mincing his words. As France’s former ambassador to Washington, he had seen enough. At a November 14 panel hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar Word?”, Araud decried the “economic warfare” being waged by the United States against […]
America — NOT Russia — Is Europe’s Enemy
Though this fact is censored-out by all ‘news’-media in the U.S. and allied countries, it will be documented in this article, which is being submitted to all news-media and is free to publish and republish by any and all of them. We shall start here with the background: Russia is […]
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