Editorials

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] If there is one lesson that national politics in Europe can teach democracies, it is the usefulness of coalitions. Indeed, within the European Union, only Greece and Malta, and so far, France, do not have a government comprising several political...

[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...