Start with a grand Paris weekend—the thunder of the organ at a renewed Notre Dame, crowds winding through centuries of art—and watch it flicker into something more fragile as the TGV grinds to a halt. That sudden stall becomes our window into a tougher story: a Europe struggling with integration, security, and a welfare model built for a different era. We unpack how protests at Charles de Gaulle and a brazen Louvre heist expose brittle public systems, then widen the lens to immigration polic...