France is only the front line in a crisis gripping the G7
... return to the pre-integration era. But the political forces cast as outsiders today may soon be the ones defining the new order. What we are witnessing is not just a crisis in France, or a resignation in Japan, or a reshuffle in Italy. It is a collective crisis of the G7’s political systems. The American led-bloc still has reserves of strength – above all, its sovereign states can still change course when pressed. But the EU, bound by its own rigidities, finds itself caught. Its governments cannot adapt quickly, and its supranational institutions block meaningful change. The European project was once the most successful political innovation of the Old World. But it has ...
16.09.2025
