Editorials

The UN can be proud of having enabled Ivory Coast to regain legality. France is honoured to have made its military force available to the UN, with skill, reserve and professionalism, in the service of peace. France has also made a commitment in Libya, along with its partners, notably European, in...

Resolution 1973 is a European victory. Europe's universal values of democracy, rule of law and human rights do not fit well with action undertaken by regimes which maintain power by massacring their populations. On France's and the United Kingdom's initiative, the call by the Arab countries to...

Contrary to popular belief the European Union is highly involved in the Mediterranean. It devoted three quarters of the 5.6 billion euros of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument to the region from 2007-2010. It will do the same between 2011 and 2013. Hence the direct aid paid to...

Learning the lessons of the 2010 crisis which nearly wiped out 60 years of European integration France and Germany almost caused a scandal as they suggested the establishment of a “competitiveness pact” to their partners – the aim of which is to accelerate the harmonisation of...