Opinions #12/24

In a scenario that has already been tested, numerous elections scheduled for 2024 will also be characterized by complaints of foreign interference. This will be true for the US presidential election in November, as well as the European Parliament elections in June. A trend where complaints are addressed to foreign powers now considered hostile, primarily Russia and China. But the University of Pennsylvania study informs us of a different and surprising reality about the main culprits of electoral change in recent history. Meanwhile in France, Macron is making controversial proposals for the war in Ukraine, suggesting Western troops should be sent in, as well as a truce during the Olympics to be held in Paris. A dangerous confusion whose causes are analyzed by Pascal Boniface. In the context of Europe alarmingly losing its balance over options for inciting war that only a few months ago seemed taboo. And what Anton Giulio De Robertis attributes to that irresponsible “sleepwalking” that already characterized the European leadership on the eve of World War I.

Alessandro Cassieri

Editor in chief