When conflict began with Prussia, France’s military system was already failing. Corruption, poor organization, and missing ...

France entered the Franco-Prussian War confident and unprepared — Prussia entered disciplined and ready. This video explores how Otto von Bismarck’s manipulation of the Ems Dispatch provoked France ...

The Ambassadors of France and Germany met at the Internationale Deutsche Schule Bukarest (iDSBU) to mark 63 years since the ...

However, prior to the rise of the United States as a great power, saviour of Europe and later as a superpower, the European ...

Pay attention when a U.S. president says something both belligerent and strange to the leader of a European NATO nation.

Observing the tussle for Greenland, it is hard not to recall Karl Marx’s aphorism that history repeats itself “the first time ...

The post–World War II order is dead. In its place, countries are fast adopting a values-neutral, transactional approach toward foreign policy. China was the progenitor of this approach to ...

President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the ...

Asked in December 2025 what the biggest sticking point was in negotiating peace in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump got ...

Official data released Tuesday show France's birth rate has reached its lowest point in more than a century. When it comes to ...

Tell me what is your nightmare and I will tell you who you are!” The quip attributed to Freud may be apocryphal, but I think it contains a grain of truth. I don’t know what your nightmare is, but I ...

MEET Metz. It’s a French city you may not have heard of – but with impressive history, great food, and world-beating stained ...