France and European Security, by Jean-Pierre Chevènement Since Summer 1989, the setting up of the new political shape of our continent has been sped up. As in the past, the relative weight of nations and alliances is at stake as a new balance of forces is gradually set up. We are living a return to « Europe of history and geography ». It requires our thinking of the way to ensure peace and stability on the continent in the long term. France is ready to think it over. She has always looked upon the division of Europe in two blocks as not everlasting and thought that European security could not be considered a from strict East-West point of view. Western Europeans have to maintain a collective and reliable management of security and rely on n...