
Pierre Vimont
Former Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service
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Sep 22, 2026
Divided in adversity? The geopolitics of a Eurosceptic Union
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Pierre VimontGUEST
First of all, thank you for inviting me and for you, Claude France, to accept to have this conversation.

Pierre VimontGUEST
I take it as a conversation which is a bit surprising for two French speakers to speak in English, as you said.

Pierre VimontGUEST
But it's Euroscepticism, and I thank Thomas, first of all, for an excellent report and for putting that question, because I wasn't thinking all that much about it.

Pierre VimontGUEST
But at the end of the day, what is Euroscepticism today? You very rightly made a distinction between skepticism inside the EU and skepticism outside.

Pierre VimontGUEST
Maybe the Euroskepticism outside of the EU, and I guess you were thinking about the MAGA movement for instance, is much more hostility than anything else and I agree with you.
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I think we should also distinguish short-term position, Russia at war, and if, when we have an end to this war, how the position vis-à-vis Russia would evolve and would we keep a kind of consensus within Europe?
