Here it comes, rising slowly, the « vile beast »[1]. A long time ago, in 1998, Franck Biancheri, our regretfully departed director of studies, signed an anticipatory article entitled: « 2009, when Europe ends up in the hands of the grandsons of Hitler, Pétain, Mussolini… »[2] This is the fate he anticipated for the EU in case it failed to democratize. The failure is a patent fact, and the process is well launched.
As we wrote more recently, the wave of migrants, soon followed by the terrorist attacks in 2015, cast blows far too hard for the EU, already weakened by the Euro currency and the EU-Russia crises, to resist.
Progressive and reactionary trends were balanced until September. This is no longer the case…