Foreign Affairs committee  If I may add something, I agree with your assessment on Macron's position in Europe. I think it is a result of the fact that it is a harder position to take to both defend the European Union and its principles and at the same time be lucid about the challenges and some of the pol

Foreign Affairs committee  A quick point on this is that the Schengen agreement was the abolition of internal borders. I think the reason they were seen to be a failure to a certain extent was that there wasn't the necessary transfer of resources to control external borders. This left an undue burden on ce

Foreign Affairs committee  You're right. The French leader said, something like 25 years ago, that populists ask the right questions and give the wrong answers. It's true that this issue of immigration has been hijacked, in terms of fear, by nativist rhetoric. If we want to be able to respond to these fear

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your invitation. Let me just add a quick couple of words to what Dan just said about the threats to liberal world order. As we have talked about this a lot in the last few years both in the United States and Europe, it's important to define the words that we're tal