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🇬🇧Macron Snubs Farage During UK Visit - and He’s Right to Do So
French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting leaders with real political weight, not poll-chasing populists like Nigel Farage.
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Julien Hoez
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🇫🇷Le Pen’s Aircon Push, RN’s Legal Woes, Macron vs Iran, and a Youth Rebrand
As Marine Le Pen launches a campaign built on cool air, the RN faces fresh embezzlement charges, Macron warns Iran, and Macron’s youth wing rebrands…
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Julien Hoez
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🇪🇺Post-American Europe, Part I: The Deep Historical Logic of European Unity
From medieval rivalry to the Pax Democratica: why Europe’s unique political ecology was always destined for integration, and why it must now defend that…
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Arturo Macías
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💬Macron's address to the French [Transcript]
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Trump's Zelenskyy ambush shows the end of our alliance
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🇫🇷Macron's Trumpian emergency
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⚖️Passport Denied: The sale of EU Citizenship has come to an end
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🇫🇷Macron's 'Choose Europe for Science' speech [Translation]
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🇺🇦The Paris Summits on Ukraine's future
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🇫🇷Bayrou Besieged, Le Pen on the Line: France’s Censure Crisis Unites Left and Right
François Bayrou’s reform conclave collapses, a far-left and far-right censure motion threatens his government, all while Marine Le Pen faces political…
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Julien Hoez
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🇪🇺Ursula von der Leyen Risks EU Majority over Green Claims Directive and Budget Fight
Tensions mount within Von der Leyen’s centrist coalition as backlash grows over the withdrawal of the Green Claims Directive and looming EU budget…
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Julien Hoez
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🇫🇷French Scandals: Fillon, Guerriau, Terraces
François Fillon condemned to four years prison, Guerriau accused once again, and Paris city hall in fight over terraces
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Julien Hoez
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🇫🇷Charles de Gaulle’s 18 June Appeal: the Spark of the French Resistance
What was the famous 18th June Appeal that forged Charles de Gaulle into a historic leader, and why did it change the course of the war?
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Julien Hoez
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🇪🇺 Responsibility to Protect at 20: What the EU Must Do to Uphold Human Security
As the UN marks 20 years of the Responsibility to Protect, its latest report urges the EU to close the gap between ideals and action on atrocity…
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Vladan Lausevic
🇬🇱Macron in Greenland: 'Europe Will Not Let the Arctic Be Bought or Taken'
In a landmark visit to Nuuk, the French President pledges solidarity with Greenland and Denmark, defends Arctic sovereignty, and calls for climate…
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Julien Hoez
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🇫🇷Honour and dishonour
Final call for 2025 survey feedback, Olivier Faure re-elected as PS First Secretary, Macron brings together Israelis and Palestinians, and Sarkozy…
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🇫🇷No dispatch this week
Taking some much needed R&R
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Julien Hoez
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🇫🇷Champions, Tariffs, and Macron challenges Xi Jinping
Paris Saint-Germain win Champions League, 'What a week' - Blocks on Tariffs, Catalan and Budapest Pride, Emmanuel Macron challenges Xi Jinping and…
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Julien Hoez
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