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EDITORIAL. Since the invasion of Ukraine, we hear less talk demonizing Europe or nuclear power. But there are still some nagging illusions.
By Etienne Gernelle
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ATIn the register of calembredaines, beguiling scams and bad checks, this presidential campaign is not much less fertile than the previous ones. But let’s savor the dissipation of some of our most stubborn political nonsense, especially (but not only) after the invasion of Ukraine.
First, this: Europe would be a threat to France. To hear some of our most enthusiastic anti-Europeans, we were not far from suffering the fate of Ukraine today and from being crushed by the tracks of armored vehicles from Brussels. Not so long ago, in 2017, Marine Le Pen spoke without laughing about the dimension “totalitarian” of the Commission, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced, in Bismarck herring, book published in 2015, a ” New…
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