Good morning! We are David Carretta, Christian Spillmann and Oliver Grimm, and we are presenting you the Morning Post Europe. Parts of it are translated with the help of AI, but always edited by one of us.
Here we are. We have reached the end of another season. Like the institutions of the European Union, the Morning Post Europe is taking a summer break. Not entirely. We intend to stay in touch with our readers, occasionally sharing some of our own analyses or hosting contributions on specific topics.
We are in fact starting today with an OpEd by Sylvain Kahn, professor at Sciences Po in Paris, author of the book “L’Europe, un État qui s’ignore” and host of a podcast on the history and current affairs of the EU. The topic is taboo in Brussels: is the European Union already a state that refuses to recognise itself as such?
In the briefing we cover Ukraine: the twenty-seven have reached an agreement to water down the twenty-first sanctions package against Russia. The Commission has imposed