Paris Olympics: “Erasing the Invalides Cross” on the official poster borders on “stupidity”, challenges the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Antonio Tajani is angry with “ French-style  ” secularism, and he prefers to make it known in the language of Molière.

“If we do not respect ourselves, others will never respect Europeans,” castigated the former president of the European Parliament. It must be said that the designer of the said poster, the Parisian Ugo Gattoni, is himself of Italian origin.