[Opinion] OPINION. For the European Union, the lessons of empires – The New Federalist

On July 5, 2023, the daily Marianne launched a podcast entitled "The Return of Empires," echoing an opinion widely shared in the press, in the scientific circles and in public opinion. Symbol of power, prosperity and sometimes of a fantasy past, the empire is a political model to which certain powers of this world would like to return because they were, for a time, the cradle of one of them. Yet the empire was a dead concept since the end of the…