INSTITUT BRENNUS * Paris-Vienna

After a year in office, Donald Trump must acknowledge the profound decline of the United States. He believed that Russia would be only too happy to seize the opportunity for his mediation, but he is now faced with the reality that Russia has no need for the United States to negotiate peace in Ukraine. Donald…

To tell the truth, we see this affair less as proof of corruption in Brussels than as a sign that ‘Brussels’ has entered the terminal crisis of Western governance, with judges taking power. In the governance system that preceded ‘New Public Management’, that complicated system invented by Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister (1997-2007), who…

At the end of October, the popularity rating of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU) had fallen to 24%. The coalition partner, the SPD, had gained one point compared to the previous week (15%), leaving little room for manoeuvre for the coalition: when Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz’s predecessor, was elected Chancellor in 2021, his…

A series of clashes are taking place along what could be called the ‘Mackinder line’. We recall that at the beginning of the 20th century, British geopolitician Mackinder believed that maritime powers should prevent, at all costs, the expansion of a Eurasian continental power – in fact, Russia. Contentons-nous de constater que la diagonale des…