Good read on the growing statist French influence, this week causing @ProfFionasm to withdraw. Missing is the significant power the French LREM currently has in @RenewEurope, the group often determining the majority in the European Parliament ↘️
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Stanley Pignal: A shift is happening within the EU. Once dominant, the liberal, pro-globalisation faction is losing ground to a French-led campaign for a more insular, less "naive" Europe.
The fight over Fiona Scott Morton was a symptom of that. My column this week:
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/07/19/a-spat-in-brussels-pits-an-open-vision-of-europe-against-an-insular-one
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