Editorials

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] This won't please everyone, but it's the truth. The European Union remains one of the strongest bulwarks against extremes. The demagogic programmes presented during election campaigns in the Member States are generally not implemented because they...

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] The European elections showed relative stability among the continent's political groupings, with the exception of France, Italy and Austria. Everywhere else, sovereignist movements regressed, often affected by the exercise of power. The European...

On 6 June 2024, the free world gathered on the beaches of Normandy. 80 years earlier, the allied democracies had landed there to bring down Nazism. They had agreed to "ally themselves with the devil", the worst of regimes — that of Stalin — to triumph over the absolute evil...

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] Passions are legitimate, often understandable, rarely productive. They must not be allowed to hijack the forthcoming European elections. All democracies are being destabilised by the expression of brutal anger, and Europe, home to some of the...