Ivan Rioufol: “When above-ground Europe wants to come through in force”

The scene, ridiculous, symbolizes the world above ground in which the European Union lives: on Monday May 9, while Vladimir Putin paraded his soldiers and his tanks on Red Square, in Moscow, an ethereal choreography preceded the speech on Emmanuel Macron's Europe, at the heart of the Parliament of Strasbourg.

A war threatens the West, attacked in Ukraine by Russia.

But France, which chairs the Council of the EU until June, thought it appropriate to offer, even in the ranks of the assembly, a "participatory" and "inclusive" ballet, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture to the artist Angelin Preljocaj and entitled:

Result: extras, moving arms, invaded the hemicycle by responding to the injunctions of a voiceover:

Distressing.

However, you have to imagine Macron happy: his “bougisme” goes hand in hand with these gestural performances in weightlessness, applauded by disruptive culture.

In the theatrocracy...

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