Editorials

Europeans like rules. They rightly believe that the law, which is equal for all, is necessary for life in society. Our various codes are constantly expanding. Our nations are constantly legislating, and the second level of democracy that we have organised with the European Union finds expression in...

The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, more commonly known as the European Convention on Human Rights, has just celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary. Concluded in the aftermath of the Second World War to prevent the return of totalitarianism, xenophobia,...

Unlike the media-driven missteps of an incomprehensible American diplomacy, Europe is standing firm in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine. It is Europe that is setting the pace of relations with the protagonists, despite the interference of an American president who, consciously or...

Not a day goes by without Europeans complaining about Europe. Depending on the circumstances, it is described as “divided”, “behind the times” or “powerless”. ‘And yet it moves,’ as Galileo is said to have told his judges about the Earth, whose...