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Wildfires this week have menaced Bordeaux, France’s wine capital, and Madrid, Spain’s actual capital. Don’t assume that these will be the worst European fires of the summer. People who never come within a thousand kilometres of the flames will suffer from such disasters. Our leader explains
how to lessen the damage.
For decades America’s nuclear umbrella has protected Europe while France has had its own. That’s because, as Charles De Gaulle put it to John F. Kennedy, America might not sacrifice New York to save Paris. Now other European countries fear that De Gaulle might have been right,
notes The Telegram,
our geopolitics column. And so new questions have arisen: Can Europeans shelter under France’s umbrella? And would France sacrifice Paris to save Berlin? | 
