The holiday period is approaching fast; everyone will be wishing for happiness, joy, and health. Today, everyone feels that these wishes will be more necessary and concrete than they were in previous years, when these wishes often had an automatic…
Nothing we all miss more, in 2020, than being carefree. Who even remembers today the meaning of this word that was once so banal, if not as a distant memory? Etymologically, carefreeness is being free from care and worry, or…
Here we are. A second lockdown. A second catastrophe. After a first lockdown that failed miserably. And a reopening that also failed miserably. It would be pointless to say that all this could have been avoided. In particular, it would…
Between September 1939 and May 1940, while the fascist and Nazi governments were forcibly organising the production of armaments, the French, English and Belgian democracies were waiting for god knows what, confident in the illusory protection of the Maginot Line…
Three events that occurred this week reminded me of this major question that philosophers often talk about among themselves, in their chambers, but whose real answer can only be found in action. A young girl was attacked in Strasbourg, France,…
Will it take a second wave of COVID-19 to sweep across Europe for us to finally understand that we are on the wrong track? I am not talking about the medical field here, which I will refrain from expressing an…
When darkness sets in, you have to look for a few rays of light and use them to lighten your way. When bad news accumulates, we must seek good news and lean on it. When evil progresses, we must rely…
In Europe, as in many other regions in the northern hemisphere, the second and third weeks of August, time stands still, because after a year’s work, the most privileged enjoy their holidays; and it is also a time when everyone…
One of the greatest scandals of the lockdown period was, and still is, the impossibility to accompany our loved ones in their last moments, and in some countries, to even attend their funerals. Everyone has promised to do everything possible…
