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France has the most to lose from Britain's turn away from Europe

29 December 2021

6:00 PM

29 December 2021

6:00 PM

It was Napoleon who declared that ‘a state has the politics of its geography’. We do well to remember that in taking stock of European international relations as we speculate on a new year and beyond. By Europe is meant the European continent, ‘from the Atlantic to the Urals’, in de Gaulle’s words.

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