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Jean-Louis Bourlanges: "What worries me is not the EU, it's the Europeans themselves"

2022-09-19T17:56:37.735Z


INTERVIEW - Chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, MP MoDem sat in the European Parliament from 1989 to 2007. He has responded to the attacks formulated against the European Union for thirty years. According to him, the war in Ukraine is a game-changer and...


LE FIGARO.

- Thirty years ago, a referendum authorized France's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.

Looking back, how do you view the intense campaign that rocked France that year?

Isn't the divide between "France of no" and "France of yes" found today in the opposition between the Macronist bloc and the populist bloc?

Jean-Louis BOURLANGES.

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The fortune of the European idea is indexed to the level of external threat weighing on the continent.

The Maastricht Treaty was driven by the latest developments of the Cold War, but its signing coincided with a brutal reversal in the international situation.

Demobilized by their victory, the peoples began to feel the construction of Europe as a less and less necessary constraint.

The realization of the euro and the enlargement of the Union to the liberated states of Central and Eastern Europe, which are the belated children of earlier successes, have thus concealed a…

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