This Newsletter is the 12th published in 2025 and the 46th since February 2022. The slogan 'United colors' was necessary to close a contrasted year where Europeans and Ukraine were faced to 'all colors'. A final "friendly" initiative in November 2025 - a “peace” plan proposed by the American envoy for Ukraine, inspired by his Russian counterparts. Diversity is the "red rag" or the "black beast" of autocracies and reactionary movements. First indicator of a democracy in modern multicultural societies, it is heckled in Russia of Putin and in America of the MAGA (Make America Great Again). The fierce repression of dissident voices is the best demonstration that diversity in all its facets is a strength for democracies and a threat to dictatorships and authoritarian abuses. The European countries show a strong unity behind Ukraine, they have become the first contributors to the war effort. The Ukrainian front has become the external border of the EU directly threatened by Vladimir Putin’s regime. The State of the Union speech delivered on the 10th of September 2025 by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, expresses the will of the Europeans to take their destinies into their own hands. The European Union and most of its members must refuse to be invisible. They can and should wear their colors proudly - Europeans, with flying colours!
1- United colours
2- Same colors for Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America
3- All colors for Ukraine
4- United colors of Europe