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The banning of Marine Le Pen will benefit the French right, but it is another worrying example of an out-of-control elite class
There’s not a new sheriff in town, but an old one with scores to settle
My glass of Pol Roger, expensive though it is now, will not be getting more expensive any time soon
Populist parties of both the right and left have been persecuted by the EU for at least twenty-five years
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s White House encounter with Donald Trump was controversial even before it was announced
The country has always been seen in Europe as a backstop that could bail out other members when disaster struck
The French president is reported to have raised the notion of a French nuclear umbrella for Europe in his meeting with Trump
Trump’s surprise direct negotiations with Putin presented the French president with a golden opportunity to get back in the game
The era in which Europeans could reliably outsource their security to the United States is now over
