French national Pierre Verluise, who holds a doctorate in geopolitics, is director of diploweb.com , an online geopolitical journal. He teaches geopolitics at University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and history, geography and geopolitics to students preparing to enter the 'grandes écoles' in Paris.
You paint an alarming picture and state that all the EU's factors of power are in the red zone. To what extent is that so?
Power criteria are based on population, the economy and the desire for power.…