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Sunday, 31 May 2020

Looking into the new direction

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As we get ready to go into June, we must be as ambitious as possible. It is not just a question of optimism. It is not a matter of rhetor...
Friday, 29 May 2020

The EU must be more creative in matters of crisis response

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Josep Borrel, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, addressed the UN Security Council yesterday. It was a long speech about seve...
Thursday, 28 May 2020

A new model of politics

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The huge amount of resources that the European Union member States will have available for recovery is a golden opportunity to change wha...
Wednesday, 27 May 2020

A stronger European Union

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The European Recovery Fund, proposed by the President of the European Commission, was favourably received in the various capitals of the ...
Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Opinion texts must be short and direct

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I said before that brevity is a sign of intelligence. And I am still convinced that is the case. The problem is that I have a few friends...
Monday, 25 May 2020

Africa Day 2020

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Africa Day 2020 was ignored in Europe. The pandemic pushes everything else out of the screen. In past years, today’s celebration would be...
Sunday, 24 May 2020

China, Europe and the others

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This is the wrong time to behave like a bully in the international arena. The Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, seems to know it. He app...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

My friend gets special treatment

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It is a serious mistake to follow double standards when you are leading a country. You cannot be exacting for some and permissive for oth...
Friday, 22 May 2020

New disparities in a changing world

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People were queuing this afternoon to get into the most expensive shops in a well-to-do area of Brussels. The other shops, normally patro...
Thursday, 21 May 2020

The realism and the utopia

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Today I came back to a statement that I used to make when discussing with overly ambitious but unrealistic people. I would tell them that...