Two MEPs, the essayist Raphaël Glucksmann (Social Democrats group) and the former journalist Bernard Guetta (Renew), each publish a book directly blown by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In La Grande Confrontation, the first, who chairs the EU's special committee on foreign interference, recounts the "incredible blindness" of European democracies and elites.
"They sold their enemies the rope to hang them," the author writes. The chancellors and ministers who have "sold" themselves to the Kremlin "have not only "lacked loyalty to our republics, they have put themselves at the service of their most dangerous enemy"