L’Europe superpuissance

In this publication, the Belgian political scientist Marc De Vos, founder of the Flemish think tank Itinera, analyses the way the European Union has been transformed by the succession of crises it has lived through.

Before developing his three main hypotheses, the author paints a highly optimistic picture of Europe for his readers: “a true colossus made up of 27 member states and 450 million souls, the European Union is the third-largest economic power and, [...]

L’accélération de l’histoire

“What is playing out at the moment is [the] desire [of the Europeans] to act and to remain in history at a time when the global configuration is becoming fundamentally unfavourable to them”, writes the historian and director of the Institut Français Des Relations Internationales (Ifri), Thomas Gomart, at the start of this essay, setting the tone for a highly engaged and proactive work, which shines a light on the geostrategic movements at play in [...]

Les saccageurs de l’espace

Space continues to be a mystery, even to those who explore it. How, then, can we ever hope to understand what it is really about? Reading this book, which is passionate, clear and well documented, is a good start. Raphaël Chevrier, a doctor of physics, works in the space industry (MaiaSpace) and takes us on a fascinating journey through space and time with a passion that is contagious. With flashbacks retracing the major staging posts in the “conquest” of [...]

Qatargate

With this work, Le Soir journalists Louis Colart and Joël Matriche provide an extremely well-documented investigation into the Qatargate scandal, grouping together the acts of corruption and foreign interference involving Qatar and Morocco. The book reads like a detective novel, but with one major difference: there is nothing fictional about these intrigues and all the characters are real people. Moreover, this journalistic investigation is based on more than 5000 pages of [...]

La grande confrontation

With great realism, European Parliament member Raphaël Glucksmann demonstrates and argues that the war in Ukraine is not a distant isolated phenomenon, with no consequences or any real importance to our democracies, as many Europeans still believe is the case. Because, irrespective of the level of education and training, whether or not the person has been exposed to Russian propaganda, among the elite and the more ordinary people, there are a great many [...]

Changer de boussole

In this book, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, Olivier De Schutter, stresses the fact that poverty and extreme poverty are still very present, despite some very debatable declarations that they have fallen. In the view of the author, a lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and Sciences Po (France), tackling poverty cannot be taken separately from the fight against inequality. These issues require the growth goal to be [...]

Japon. La face cachée de la perfection

Karyn Nishimura-Poupée is a French journalist who has been based for nearly quarter of a century in Japan, where she currently works for Radio France, the daily newspaper Libération and the weekly magazine Le Point, following many years at the AFP office in Tokyo. She is married to a Japanese man and has two “mixed-race children”, affording her, over and above her work as a journalist, an insight into the daily lives of the Japanese, right to [...]

Oranges amères

The Luxembourg anthropologist Gilles Reckinger spent more than 10 years, between 2009 and 2022, studying the living conditions of “failed” African migrants on the Italian coastline, particularly on the island of Lampedusa. We write “failed” because, contrary to one of many common misconceptions, many of the individuals described in this short work are men who, in the vast majority of cases, never deliberately set out to get to Europe or, more specifically, Italy. [...]

Pour les océans

There are three good reasons why this slim volume is well worth the read. Firstly, it is clear, well-documented, well-argued and provides an insight into European fisheries policy, its challenges, interactions between the various players, its current limits, the progress it has made and its margin for further progression. Secondly, because it uses a dialogue format, with interviews conducted by the journalist Vanina Delmas allowing around 12 different individuals to have [...]

L’Union européenne, puissance globale

With the war in Ukraine rumbling on and the rest of its neighbourhood seeing a resurgence of other conflicts, the European Union is still trying to get its diplomacy up and running and find a way to a relative degree of strategic autonomy. This multi-disciplinary book, bringing together some 40 academic contributions, paints a picture of this up-and-coming global power struggling to establish itself on the international stage, even though it [...]