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Jeudi 28 septembre 2017

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Traduction en français d’un texte rédigé en anglais.

TEXTE AU VERSO America in Retreat, en Marche

The New York Times, June 18, 2017

PARIS — As British conservatives licked their wounds a week ago, French voters were electing hundreds of rookies to Parliament to strengthen the hand of President . A new mood is taking hold in Brussels and other European capitals these days, a wind of hope and optimism rarely felt in the last two decades.

After so many existential crises, believers in the are suddenly waking up to realize that the reports of its death were greatly exaggerated. The has not collapsed. Britain’s exit, which shocked and destabilized the union a year ago, is now perceived as an opportunity for the 27 remaining members to regroup.

In Britain, and Germany, the migration crisis is being contained, despite shamefully little progress in the search for long-term solutions. The public has held its ground in the face of devastating terrorist attacks. Populist movements are stalling, countered by re-energized democratic forces.

Last but not least, the economy is looking up after years of stagnation. Gone is the obsession with the “lost decade.” Instead, people talk of “the turnaround” and a potential “golden decade,” a phrase recently applied to Europe by Philipp Hildebrand, the vice chairman of BlackRock, in an interview with Bloomberg.

The most spectacular turnaround, obviously, was provided not by the euro but by Emmanuel Macron’s stunning victory in the French presidential election last month, followed by the overwhelming success of his new party, La République en Marche, in the first round of legislative elections on June 11.

A new sense of urgency is crossing the Rhine. Mr. Macron’s government is openly German-friendly; five of its members, including Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, speak the language fluently. The defense ministers of Germany and France, Ursula von der Leyen and Sylvie Goulard, speak the other’s language and have hit it off, with ambitious plans for European defense. On July 13, the day before Bastille Day, both governments will hold a joint cabinet meeting in Paris to discuss proposals to strengthen and further integrate the eurozone.

The last statistic points to another factor in Europe’s revival: Donald Trump. The American president’s belated profession of faith in Article 5 of the NATO charter on June 9 will not erase the damage done at the recent NATO and G-7 summits, and by his decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change. “We must find ways of moving forward without the United States if they don’t want to come along. Merkel is right. The time has come to reform the E.U.”

French officials are quick to point out that partners on both sides of the Atlantic are in many ways interdependent and will continue to work together, in the fight against terrorism, for instance. Even on climate change, cooperation will find other routes, past the White House, to states and cities. “There are forces in the United States that we know we can rely upon,” Ms. Goulard, the French defense minister, said in Singapore on June 3, “and these forces will ultimately prevail.”