Opinions #19/24

The bitter ballot box of voting for the British government. Local elections have created a country that is increasingly skeptical and distrustful of the Conservative Party. One after another, four Conservative prime ministers have failed to make the Brexit they favored less of a failure. Frustration that leads to powerlessness or risky foreign policy choices. Meanwhile, in Africa, another great power of the twentieth century has to record signs of its decline. In the countries of the so-called Francafrique, a domino effect seems to have worked in the name of centrifugal dynamics towards Paris. French Polaris, Caroline Roussy explains, is becoming less and less convincing politically, militarily, industrially, and financially. While another element of the crisis in the Western world, the gradual emptying of the churches, lies at the heart of Heinz Joachim Fischer’s analysis.

Alessandro Cassieri

Editor-in-chief