We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.

Congratulations to Donald Trump, the new president of the United States - and to the people of America, who are free.

We used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are now on a path towards under-development. This austerity that has been imposed on the people doesn't work. The people will not allow themselves to be throttled without revolting.

I can't blame Angela Merkel for saying she wants a strong euro.

Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe in France - they have a post-national worldview. I call them France-skeptics. That's why democracy is collapsing here in France.