The Big Picture
Vincent Boland: The rising enemy from within poses greatest threat to EU unity
EU leaders will meet in Brussels this week, where the agenda could hardly be more pressing nor the backdrop more gloomy
At least twice in the past few years, President Emmanuel Macron of France has attempted the seemingly impossible.
In 2017 he invited Donald Trump to be the guest of honour at the Bastille Day parade in Paris, and to persuade the newly elected US leader that Europe was not the enemy.
And just before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the French leader went to Moscow to try to get Vladimir Putin to stay ...
