It’s a pretty disconnected world. That is how an impartial observer could have summed up the spectacle of the Munich Security Conference, held on 15…
It’s a pretty disconnected world. That is how an impartial observer could have summed up the spectacle of the Munich Security Conference, held on 15…
Vladimir Putin has just accepted Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to attend a summit on Ukraine in Paris in “Normandy format”. Invented by President Holland on June…
In an interview published on 9 November, in the British weekly The Economist, Emmanuel Macron said that NATO was brain-dead. The metaphor is at the…
It feels like we’re living through a revolution long in the making. To be fair, I haven’t experienced enough other revolutions to adequately compare it…
By welcoming Vladimir Putin face-to-face in Brégançon on 19 August, by restoring diplomatic realism in his speech to the Conference of Ambassadors on 27 August,…
At the G-7 Biarritz Summit (24-26 August ), Emmanuel Macron demonstrated diplomatic mastery. Created by President Giscard d’Estaing in 1975, this economic club of the…
This blog post is an extract from Nick Silver and Zoe Hodge’s book A Guide to New Political Movements, now published on Kindle… From the…
The signature of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, on January 22, gave rise to a lot of hope, particularly in…
In the space of three weeks, France has given the world two quite different views of its famous Arc de Triomphe. On November 11, in…
On landing on French soil Friday, November 9, 2018, Donald Trump tweeted little for his host: “French President Macron has just suggested that Europe develops…
President Macron was elected on the promise of bringing radical change to France while operating from the centre of the political spectrum or, as he…
Last weekend was not the most enjoyable weekend I ever had. Flying back from the USA, I was stuck in Madrid having missed my connection…