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Marion Van Renterghem

Joy and delusion in France

Most of France celebrated the defeat of Marine Le Pen last Sunday. But the price of victory will be chaos

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Macron’s great failure

The hard right has boomed under Macron – that will be his epitaph

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Who leads the European hard right: Meloni or Le Pen?

A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe

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The irresistible rise of France’s new far right star

Rassemblement National’s European election candidate Jordan Bardella was humiliated in a TV debate. So why do opinion polls say he won?

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Ukraine’s four wars

The conflict is being fought on four fronts: military, psychological, judicial and diplomatic. Could it be about to enter a new phase?

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The Orbán/Trump alliance is a threat to Europe

Viktor Orbán’s support for Trump and Putin could give rise to a terrifying axis, and with it bring about the end of liberal democracy

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The case for a European army

Macron’s supposed ‘gaffe’ over European troops in Ukraine has invigorated the allies and again raised the question of an EU army

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A rightmare in Brussels: the rise of the European populists

Populists are set to triumph in June’s EU elections, fuelled by fears over immigration, inflation and insecurity. How bad could it get?

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Where are France’s missing marchers?

Young people’s snubbing of a massive Paris rally against antisemitism must sound a warning for Europe’s left

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The pack turns on lone wolf Macron

Emmanuel Macron refuses to realise people did not vote for his pension reforms – they voted against Marine Le Pen. Now France is on the verge of explosion

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The year of living dangerously

In Kyiv, as the invasion anniversary looms, Ukrainians are still asking ‘What can I do to help?’

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We French feel a very German schadenfreude when we look at Brexit Britain

Only a third of Leavers still see it as a success. So why won’t Starmer speak up?

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Europe’s new schism

Germany and France have spent decades falling out and making up. But new isolationism in Berlin and decline in Paris make their latest feud serious

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Le Pen’s slogans may have changed… her heart has not

The rebranded right wing presidential candidate is not what she pretends

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Michel Barnier says he will ‘never yield’ to Brexiteers attempting to ‘destroy’ the EU

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Why Boris Johnson is the prime minister who can’t ‘Get Covid Done’

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Whatever happens, this election will not bring Europe certainty

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MARION VAN RENTERGHEM: ‘Brexit is the perfect argument for Scottish independence’

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Tony Blair: ‘Brexit’s doomed coalition will burst’

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‘I have no choice but to become French.. Britain after Brexit is no longer my country’

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Macron: the rule breaker who smashed up the system

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Brexit Street in France is literally the road to nowhere

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France and the long shadow of Putin

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The Le Pens: a far right dynasty

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Le Pen can win: she appropriates issues that matter to the French

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Le Pen: Lettre à mes amis intelligents

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Democracy is now paying the price for its most precious offering: Freedom

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Monsieur L’Europe s’inquiète mais le rêve doit persister

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The UK is the most obvious victim of Brexit, but it may swallow us all

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