The Ukrainian counter-offensive which is slipping, the Middle East which is on fire and the contenders for the Elysée already in the race before 2027… The news has been particularly dense in 2023. To bring it back to you, L’Express has chose to offer you some of his major interviews which marked the 70th anniversary of the newspaper. Geopolitics, science, economics… Seven interviews which also put the looming year 2024 into perspective.
Edouard Philippe, the stone in the pond on immigration
While the immigration law was one of the major political battles of the year, the former Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, a few months earlier, threw a wrench in the pond on the theme of immigration. He advocates, nothing less, than the denunciation of the 1968 agreement with Algeria and exposes his new doctrine on a theme which will count in 2027.
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Ukraine can count on Kaja Kallas
Prime Minister (center right) of Estonia since 2021, the winner of the Europe Prize awarded by The Express became known for its constant support for Ukraine. While the counter-offensive is struggling to take off, Kaja Kallas launched a vibrant appeal for the defense of kyiv. According to her, democracies are more resilient than the master of the Kremlin imagines.
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Robert Plomin shakes up our beliefs about family
He is one of the world’s most renowned psychology researchers. In “The Invisible Architect”, Robert Plomin, professor of behavioral genetics at King’s College London, explains how research on heritability overturns our preconceived ideas about family or education. Fascinating.
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Elisabeth Badinter’s appeal against anti-Semitism
The conflict in the Middle East has caused anti-Semitic acts to explode in France. Elisabeth Badinter, the Enlightenment specialist, does not hide her great concern, and calls for a start. Faced, in particular, with “the strategy of entryism and victimization of Islamism, which kills”. A word that carries weight in current debates.
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Macky Sall and anti-French sentiment
Macky Sall is at the head of a country in turmoil. Riots in Dakar, war in Ukraine, Putin and Françafrique… In an exclusive interview with L’Express, the President of Senegal reveals his four truths. While several coups d’état will strike, a few months later, several countries in French-speaking Africa, he returns to this anti-French feeling which is growing on the continent.
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Johan Norberg and the defense of capitalism
At the beginning of the century, a young Swede, a former anarchist converted to liberalism, published the much-noticed Plea for capitalist globalization, a response to the alter-globalization movements then in vogue. Since then, Johan Norberg has established himself as one of the leading figures of the “new optimists”. Inequalities, global warming, immigration… Everything is scrutinized by the intellectual.
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Iegor Gran and the future of Putin
Confident that in 2024 time will be on his side and that the setbacks of his army in 2022 are a thing of the past, Vladimir Putin displayed his confidence in “victory” during a question-and-answer session with the Russian press on December 14 last year. Victory or not, Iegor Gran, essayist and keen observer of Russian society, estimated in an interview with Express on March 4 that the head of the Kremlin “has already created a magnificent way out” .
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