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Angela Merkel proposes to create a European network of communication to face the American quasi-monopoly of digital data exploitation. Finally, a unifying proposal for Europe! For the first time in a long time, today in Paris, the French and German Council of Ministers' agenda contains a complete proposal for partnership. The digital domain is without a doubt as important as the pooling of German coal and French steel resources in 1950 that gave birth to ECSC and then the European…

NSA's spying against its allies created an intolerable climate. Europe has to henceforth suspend its agreement of free-exchange with the United States and require them to pledge their confidence. "What do we know? Nothing." The moral of the Coen brothers' film, Burn After Reading (2008), American intelligence industry satire, is particularly encouraging and promising for the millions of French who discovered that the American NSA spied on them, at the rate of 70.3 million intercepted communications per month. In the…

Between the BNP Paribas issue, the NSA scandal, the quasi-monopoly of the internet, and the ambiguity of the transatlantic treaty, our best ally has hit us hard in the past few months. "My God, protect me from my friends," said Voltaire. In two days, as we celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the landings on Normandy, it is a good time to evaluate the quality of our alliance and friendship with the United States. This alliance and friendship has been unfailing.…

Two decades have passed since the launch of Jacques Chirac's partnership with China. Today, disappointment prevails in Beijing. It is time for France to revive close relations with China. "What is going on in Paris? It is as if everyone has gone crazy. Even worse: suicidal [...] Try again my friends! We need you, here." "Here"? We are in Beijing. My partners, Chinese business leaders, esteemed French experts no longer understand our country's actions. The list of dissappointments and missed…

"Now that you are a fact, we shall deal with you." In his Mémoires, Jean Monnet remembers, with humor and amazement, the ambiguity and pragmatism of British diplomacy, in the face of the emergence of the European community 50 years ago. After having splendidly ignored it for some years, then despised, and then dared to torpedo the initiatives to build the European Community of Carbon and Steel, Great Britain, through the voice of its diplomat Sir Roger Makins, finished by…

Germany's economic successes make it the natural leader for Europe. It has to henceforth assume its role on the political stage and its first task is to convince the ECB to promote a true European recovery. While Angela Merkel carefully prepares her large coalition government, disregarding its main European partner, France, the time is right to return to the remarkable path of this country's since the end of World War II. Cured of its imperialistic temptations, Germany split in two…