Amadou, stuck at the gates of elite

The jury of the Libex 2020 prize picked the 10 finalists from the 55 cartoons on threats to freedom of expression, including in Europe, which passed the first selection. We present them here.

The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, gives her first State of the EU address on 16 September. With its recovery plan and the action of the ECB, the EU has reacted better to the corona-crisis than other blocks. It must now think of itself as a “geopolitical power” in order to face the challenges and speak directly to citizens to assert its uniqueness and defend its model, says the president of the Robert Schuman Foundation.

Threatened on several fronts, Europe needs common institutions that can assert a political power worthy of its economic weight, argues sociologist Alain Caillé, one of the authors of the Second Convivialist Manifesto.