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...Think Donald Trump and the US Republican party, or Boris Johnson and the UK Conservative party....
...These were the forces that triggered Brexit in the UK, elected Donald Trump in the US and brought strongmen leaders to power from Brazil to the Philippines....
...The movement — descended from the traditional rightwing in France incarnated by former presidents Charles de Gaulle and Jacques Chirac — imploded at the last election when an embezzlement scandal derailed...
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...programme of economic reforms to revive the economy at home, and established himself as the west’s most prominent champion of democracy, multilateralism and the “rules-based international order” even as Donald...
...Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, and Charles Michel, European Council president, both of whom had lunch with Mr Macron at the Elysée on Monday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the OECD, have gone...
...Logan doesn’t push his kids to flatter him, like Donald Trump did when he interviewed Donald Jr and Ivanka on camera. But he has fixed expectations: he wants his children to be like him....
...“You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours,” Joe Biden said when he was declared the presidential election victor....
...victor.mallet@ft.com Letter in response to this column: It was just another night in Paris / From John Wyn-Evans, London, UK...
...This room was first used as the French president’s office by General Charles de Gaulle....
...Paris fears losing that if President Donald Trump decides to cut US military engagement in Africa, and is also seeking more military help from its European partners....
...Victor Zhang, a Huawei vice-president, said last week the company’s priority was to roll out “reliable and secure” 5G networks in Britain....
...On Tuesday, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani ruled out holding talks with President Donald Trump until the US lifted sanctions on the Islamic Republic, but bringing Mr Zarif to Biarritz during the G7 was...
...When General Charles De Gaulle invited Konrad Adenauer for a “mass for peace” in 1962 it was held in Reims Cathedral, where French kings had been crowned since the sixth century....
...The CER's latest podcast features Charles Grant laying out the Brexit scenarios with another round of meaningful UK parliamentary votes coming....
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...Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr were the same height — towering over tiny Ross Perot, the feisty independent challenger they beat into third place. Bush Sr was taller than Dukakis....
...“The greatest products of architecture,” wrote Victor Hugo, “are less the works of individuals than of society.” Notre-Dame, the writer suggested, was the collective achievement of an entire culture....
...Additional reporting by Victor Mallet in Paris...
...The Macrons suffered blowback, too, for taking Donald and Melania Trump to the Michelin-starred Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower in July 2018....
...Victor Horta, the great Brussels architect of art nouveau, seems to have been so plagued by night-time toilet trips that he built a urinal into his bedside wardrobe....
...Customers rushed to log into their accounts at Vanguard, TD Ameritrade, T Rowe Price and Charles Schwab, straining websites. Some were unable to place orders....
...US President Donald Trump warned that “all options are on the table” after North Korea launched a ballistic missile that flew over Japan early Tuesday morning....
...The soul-searching of leftwing intellectuals such as Mr Foessel in part mirrors that of liberal elites across the western world, who are struggling to understand the populist surge that swept Donald Trump...
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