How can you explain the fact that respected Italian reporters believe it was basically The Guardian who provoked Brexit? Was Brexit just lost in translation?
The words some of these media folks pick are not even remotely funny.
AfD is a far-right party which has drawn a lot of strength over the past five years by banging on about how unsafe German streets have become.
The job of those talking to everyone – all professional media, print online radio and television – is to let everyone talk.
Like-minded thinkers find it rather depressing that the Francophone equivalent of the battle Salman Rushdie fought 30 years ago – against the concept of “Commonwealth literature” – has yet to commence.
Old and new international dynamics are simultaneously at play in Europe. Many voters don't know what to make of this chaos.
Isolating itself – like Britain is doing – would be the end. Italy couldn't afford it. That is the one thing everyone agrees on…
There is one thing calculated to diffuse Europe's nationalisms: the feeling a person can have – or develop over time – of belonging to more than one country.
Three capitals – the financial and military heart, the bridge with eastern Europe, and the ancient caput mundi on the Mediterranean – form a triangle, at whose centre emerges South Tyrol.
The governor of South Tyrol recently sent a letter to the Spanish and Catalan presidents highlighting his region's successful statute of autonomy. But things in this northern Italian province are not as rosy as they appear.
The ruling Democratic party is on the verge of a breakup – given its history, this comes as no surprise.
Anti-Islam and pro-Russia, anti-LGBT and pro-Thatcher. If François Fillon wins France's right-wing primary, it will be Europe who loses.
