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Can France keep Germany in check after Brexit?

24 August 2019

7:46 PM

24 August 2019

7:46 PM

‘France has a German policy, she has no other’, remarked the seasoned observer of international affairs and future editor of Le Monde André Fontaine in 1952. With a British withdrawal from the EU she is again confronted by an old demon dating from 1871 : management of a dominant Germany on the continent of Europe.

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