Emmanuel Macron Embarrassed by Marine Le Pen in Elections But Emerges as EU Kingmaker
- Emmanuel Macron Embarrassed by Marine Le Pen in Elections But Emerges as EU Kingmaker
by Emmanuel Macron suffered defeat at home in the European elections but could console himself with securing a kingmaker role that could determine the next five years of EU politics.
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The ardently Europhile French president was narrowly beaten by Marine Le Pen’s virulently anti-EU National Rally in the French vote but stands to benefit from a fragmentation in support for the older centrist parties in the European Parliament.
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Ever since the first European elections in 1979, the centre-right European People’s Party and centre-left Socialists and Democrats have dominated EU politics. They operated, formally and informally, a grand coalition, sewing up the EU’s top jobs and gaming the approval of Brussels’…
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