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My day as the only Eurosceptic at the finishing school for Europe’s elite

At Sciences Po in Paris, I was listened to with polite amusement, but almost no one took the threat of Brexit seriously

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

I was in Paris last week to take part in an EU referendum debate at Sciences Po, a French university that specialises in international relations. It’s not an exaggeration to describe Sciences Po as a finishing school for Europe’s political elite. Twenty-eight heads of state have studied or taught there, its graduates include five of the last six French presidents and the current dean is Enrico Letta, a former prime minister of Italy.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator

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