Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister with Indian origins, does not have
“a lot of experience of France”,
one admits on the London side.
But this Oxford graduate remembered that, when Her Majesty's empire had sought to emerge from its "splendid isolation" at the dawn of the 20th century, it had relied on "entente cordiale" with France.
While the political convulsions of Brexit seem to be just subsiding, the new tenant (for four months) of 10 Downing Street is choosing Paris this Friday for one of his first bilateral visits.
It has been five years since a Franco-British summit was held.
The bitter negotiation of the divorce in Brussels, the Covid and the willingly anti-French populism of Boris Johnson had combined to widen the “Channel”.
Today, a “reasonable”
man
, who does not lack common traits with the French president, wants to
“renew the agreement”
.
It would be absurd to reject it.
We see no reason why this relationship of...
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