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Does Macron need to find his inner Trump?

France

France

Does Macron need to find his inner Trump?

The French president believed he was the future. Little did he know he would be the last of the progressive poster boys

Gavin Mortimer

Europe cannot afford a tariff war with the US

The EU can talk as tough as it wants to — but it is still going to lose

Matthew Lynn

European immigration’s theater of the absurd

Last month, the pridefully left-wing management of the Parisian theater Gaité Lyrique literally invited their own downfall

Lionel Shriver

A pleasant respite from the tumult in Cambridge

It’s far from clear that Great Britain, or Europe, for that matter, can provide a sanctuary from Trump

Jacob Heilbrunn

Place

In a balloon over Burgundy

Peace at 5,000 feet

Calla Jones Corner

Drink
January 24, 2025
How beer cracked France
This trend is, in part, due to the increasingly positive perception of anglophone culture
Felix Turner
Europe
January 23, 2025
Can the European Union’s decarbonization plan survive Trump?
For better and worse, world politics does not revolve around teachings of environmental economics
Dalibor Roháč
Europe
January 16, 2025
Why Trump invited Zemmour — and not Le Pen — to his inauguration
The invitation says much about how Reconquête is viewed by Team Trump
Gavin Mortimer
Europe
January 7, 2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen was a millstone for his daughter
The founder of the National Front died this morning at the age of 96, discredited, ignored, mentally incapacitated and largely irrelevant
Jonathan Miller
Europe
January 3, 2025
Why Elon Musk has gone easy on Emmanuel Macron
What are the alternatives?
Gavin Mortimer
Europe
December 30, 2024
Is democracy rotting in Europe?
‘He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster’
Gavin Mortimer
Europe
December 23, 2024
Will this be Macron’s last Christmas as president?
There are signs that the pressure is getting to the French president
Gavin Mortimer
Europe
December 19, 2024
Why Gisèle Pelicot is a feminist hero
Her courage has been remarkable and inspirational
Gavin Mortimer
Europe
December 14, 2024
How long will Macron’s fourth prime minister of the year last?
The veteran centrist François Bayrou takes the reins
Gavin Mortimer
Europe
December 13, 2024
Europe’s leaders need to get their defense spending right
Donald Trump is right that some of NATO’s members are essentially freeloaders
Eliot Wilson

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