Alain Minc is an essayist. His last published work:
My life with Marx
(Gallimard, 2021).
The departure of Boris Johnson opens up a strategic opportunity not to be missed for France.
Anglophiles, bruised by Brexit, the French could not feel comfortable with a leader whom they accuse of having, out of cynicism, caused this distressing divorce.
Innumerable grievances against the petulant Prime Minister have continued to arise: the about-turns, the picrocholine battles over fishing, the stabbing of the Australian submarines and,
last but not least
, the impudent plan to free oneself unilaterally and in reverse of all the international rules, of the Irish protocol.
This acrimonious relationship has obscured a major strategic issue.
The United Kingdom has certainly left the European Union but it has not left Europe.
Had he wanted to, he wouldn't have been able to: geography, history, trade, human proximity would have prevented him.
Also, you need to find a…
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