Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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OPEN LETTER: To the Europe that finally sends its €3.2 billion — Ukraine is asking for more
On June 25, 2026, at the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in Gdańsk, the European Union disbursed the first tranche of a historic loan:
FACT-CHECK: Trump, 5% of GDP and NATO blackmail — what the numbers actually say
With the NATO Ankara summit only weeks away, statements are multiplying, figures are contradicting one another, and disinformation threatens to cloud the
ESSAY: The E5 in Berlin — when Europe finally decides to defend itself for real
On June 24, 2026, five heads of government gathered in Berlin for what may go down in history as the moment when
NARRATIVE: Trump reshapes federal justice at breakneck speed — the judiciary at stake
On June 24, 2026, the U.S. Senate votes to fill all federal district court judgeships in Kansas with Donald Trump's nominees. It
PROFILE: Trump facing the midterms — a polarizing president whose polls are slipping
In June 2026, less than five months from the November midterms, the political portrait of Donald Trump is that of a man
COMMENTARY: Trump-Zelensky at the G7 — the American pivot on Ukraine that shocks Moscow
At the G7 summit in France, mid-June 2026, something unexpected happens: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky meet face to face, and Trump
OPINION: SAVE America Act — Trump forces his election law past the Senate
On June 24, 2026, Donald Trump shows up in person at the Capitol. Not as a protester, not under pressure from his
EDITORIAL: ICE at courthouse doors — a federal judge says no to Trump
On June 23, 2026, California federal judgeP. Casey Pitts — appointed by Biden — issues a 71-page ruling that invalidates the Trump
COLUMN: Trump at 80 — when doctors raise the alarm over the nuclear arsenal
On June 14, 2026, Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday. That is a banal biographical event — except when the man in