Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP For the first time since the war, the Russian economy went into decline: in the first quarter of 2026, GDP decreased by 0.5% - despite the fact that growth was expected to be 1.6%. And this is with oil prices rising in March and sanctions concessions.

Bernard Guetta Photo by MARTIN BERTRAND / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP The two-state solution is the only possible one, and it is slowly but surely coming to the fore again. Neither Hamas, with its October 7 massacre, nor the Israeli right and ultra-right, which threatened to destroy Gaza, succeeded in burying this idea. French MEP Bernard Guetta writes about this following the forum in support of a Palestinian state, which the French Foreign Ministry held the day before.