Marion Van Renterghem
12 November 2024
The race to make Europe great again
A rudderless EU ignored Trump’s threat and is now terrified and alone. It has two choices – go into overdrive or become irrelevant
Read the full article09 July 2024
Joy and delusion in France
Most of France celebrated the defeat of Marine Le Pen last Sunday. But the price of victory will be chaos
Read the full article11 June 2024
Macron’s great failure
The hard right has boomed under Macron – that will be his epitaph
Read the full article05 June 2024
Who leads the European hard right: Meloni or Le Pen?
A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe
Read the full article29 May 2024
The irresistible rise of France’s new far right star
Rassemblement National’s European election candidate Jordan Bardella was humiliated in a TV debate. So why do opinion polls say he won?
Read the full article24 April 2024
Ukraine’s four wars
The conflict is being fought on four fronts: military, psychological, judicial and diplomatic. Could it be about to enter a new phase?
Read the full article03 April 2024
The Orbán/Trump alliance is a threat to Europe
Viktor Orbán’s support for Trump and Putin could give rise to a terrifying axis, and with it bring about the end of liberal democracy
Read the full article20 March 2024
The case for a European army
Macron’s supposed ‘gaffe’ over European troops in Ukraine has invigorated the allies and again raised the question of an EU army
Read the full article17 January 2024
A rightmare in Brussels: the rise of the European populists
Populists are set to triumph in June’s EU elections, fuelled by fears over immigration, inflation and insecurity. How bad could it get?
Read the full article22 November 2023
Where are France’s missing marchers?
Young people’s snubbing of a massive Paris rally against antisemitism must sound a warning for Europe’s left
Read the full article29 March 2023
The pack turns on lone wolf Macron
Emmanuel Macron refuses to realise people did not vote for his pension reforms – they voted against Marine Le Pen. Now France is on the verge of explosion
Read the full article23 February 2023
The year of living dangerously
In Kyiv, as the invasion anniversary looms, Ukrainians are still asking ‘What can I do to help?’
Read the full article21 January 2023
We French feel a very German schadenfreude when we look at Brexit Britain
Only a third of Leavers still see it as a success. So why won’t Starmer speak up?
Read the full article04 November 2022
Europe’s new schism
Germany and France have spent decades falling out and making up. But new isolationism in Berlin and decline in Paris make their latest feud serious
Read the full article21 April 2022
Le Pen’s slogans may have changed… her heart has not
The rebranded right wing presidential candidate is not what she pretends
Read the full article03 September 2020
Michel Barnier says he will ‘never yield’ to Brexiteers attempting to ‘destroy’ the EU
06 June 2020
Why Boris Johnson is the prime minister who can’t ‘Get Covid Done’
10 December 2019
Whatever happens, this election will not bring Europe certainty
26 November 2018
MARION VAN RENTERGHEM: ‘Brexit is the perfect argument for Scottish independence’
13 December 2017
‘I have no choice but to become French.. Britain after Brexit is no longer my country’
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31 January 2017
Le Pen can win: she appropriates issues that matter to the French
16 January 2017
Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Democracy is now paying the price for its most precious offering: Freedom
06 December 2016
The UK is the most obvious victim of Brexit, but it may swallow us all
